feature request: Add an option to stream only if transcoding isn't needed

[sin3point14]

Checklist

• [X] I checked that this feature has not been requested before
• [X] I checked that this feature is not in the "Not planned" list
• [ ] This feature will benefit the majority of users

Problem Description / Use Case

I have a NAS that has a super old CPU(pentium 4). I am hosting seanime on it. The machine is good enough to serve multiple web servers but nowhere close to handling transcoding. I tried playing with the Media streaming settings and I see that if codec isn't supported by the browser, it starts to transcode, killing my poor CPU.

Proposed Solution

Judging by the logs seanime can already detect the need to transcode. So can we add a button to the Media streaming page called Enable transcoding. Turning off would disable transcoding entirely and maybe inform the user to use an external player. Hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to implement and if you accept contributions I can also try implementing this?

Additionally(I don't know if this is even posssible but...) Can we add an option to filter to filter the torrents by the file types? Streaming with mkv seems to be a problem so I can then filter mp4 torrents. Looking at https://animetosho.org/view/erai-raws-kami-no-tou-ouji-kikan-01.n1842682 the File Name (Size) section seems to indicate the extension: .mkv.

[5rahim]

Judging by the logs seanime can already detect the need to transcode. So can we add a button to the Media streaming page called Enable transcoding. Turning off would disable transcoding entirely and maybe inform the user to use an external player. Hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to implement and if you accept contributions I can also try implementing this?

I could add a Direct play only setting in a future release.

Additionally(I don't know if this is even posssible but...) Can we add an option to filter to filter the torrents by the file types? Streaming with mkv seems to be a problem so I can then filter mp4 torrents.

I don't see the utility as

1. Almost all recent anime media files use the mkv container
2. You can already check the file extension before starting a stream
3. Restricting to direct play only makes it useless

[sin3point14]

I could add a Direct play only setting in a future release.

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I don't see the utility as

Almost all recent anime media files use the mkv container You can already check the file extension before starting a stream Restricting to direct play only makes it useless

yeah that's fine though its unfortunate that an open standard file format and related codecs aren't supported by major browsers :(