Is video encoder setting per client or system wide?

[aderlopas]

Hello, 

Following the prior discussion in another thread, I came to understand that transcoding settings are per client (for instance if using the normal web client).
And in fact, that is happening as I have setup two progressive web-apps: one calling external domain name of nextpvr server and one calling the local network name of nextpvr server, and in each one, I can, in fact have a different preferred streaming profile which is kept when I set it.

The same is not however true for the video encoder setting which every time I change it in one of the two clients it also changes at both.
As the video encoder setting seems to be related with only a few parameters change in the ffmpeg command issued when a stream is requested with transcoding (i.e. when each client initiates the request) it could also be a per client setting, whereas now it is system-wide setting as it seems.

Is this by design?

Thanks and regards.

[sub]

The streaming profile is per client, different resolutions and bitrates make sense to different clients.

The video encoder setting is set once for the backend. ie, the backend is either configured to use the CPU, or a hardware encoder if it has one available. It's not intended to be different per client, other than the bitrate/resolution required for that specific client.

That said, it's mainly about the web app, since other clients are mostly able to play the native streams, so don't end up needing a trancoded stream.

[mvallevand]

If Kodi comes in it sets it own profile and the server responds to the request by replacing client values like [RESOLUTION] [BITRATE] with the profile values.

Martin

[aderlopas]

Many thanks for the clarification