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Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
https://emby.media
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Add DirectStream option alongside Disable Transcoding #1177

Closed hazcod closed 9 years ago

hazcod commented 9 years ago

For some users it may be a viable option to allow directstream but not allow transcoding for users. This way, low-power CPUs can still do some type of conversion. (Directstream shouldn't take a lot of power)

psxlover commented 9 years ago

There 's an option in Settings --> Users --> (select a user) to "Allow video playback that requires transcoding" which you can turn of for each individual user. Isn't that what you are asking for?

hazcod commented 9 years ago

I believe you misunderstood. Currently we can only choose transcoding and directstreaming or nothing. While transcoding requires CPU power, directstreaming is not very taxing.

We could just allow directstream, but maybe for super -low-power boxes..idk

hazcod commented 9 years ago

Looking at MediaBrowser.WebDashboard/dashboard-ui/scripts/mediaplayer.js#L892 , it seems that Emby does indeed offer directstreaming when transcoding is disabled as far as I can see.

Can someone familiar with the code confirm?

ebr11 commented 9 years ago

Yes, we will direct stream and that is not considered transcoding.