2022-08-01, 04:18 PM
Hi everyone,
i've been using nextpvr for a while now and it's very user friendly, but i've come to notice that it might actually be a little bit too user friendly by withholding some options.
So i'm here to gain some insight, perhaps the option is for good reason.
So in settings there's transcoding settings, which has a tickbox saying Avoid transcoding where possible (for better performance)
Which is nice, but it doesn't seem to be working the way i expected it to.
I'm running on a docker on ubuntu linux with an iptv m3u at the moment to test.
When i start a stream from kodi on another computer it fires up 8 ffmpeg processes (which is the transcoding i assume) (8 core machine) which immediately pegs all cores to 100%
This would indicate that nextpvr (or kodi, haven't ruled that out) deems it "necessary" to transcode.
However if i press stop, and just start the same channel again, it does not fire up the ffmpeg processes.
So in my mind that means it does not need to transcode this particular stream, which it could have tried in the first place.
So i have 1 question that perhaps someone might be able to help me with
is there a way to just outright disable transcoding? because it really isn't necessary
I thank you very much for your time and have a wonderful day
i've been using nextpvr for a while now and it's very user friendly, but i've come to notice that it might actually be a little bit too user friendly by withholding some options.
So i'm here to gain some insight, perhaps the option is for good reason.
So in settings there's transcoding settings, which has a tickbox saying Avoid transcoding where possible (for better performance)
Which is nice, but it doesn't seem to be working the way i expected it to.
I'm running on a docker on ubuntu linux with an iptv m3u at the moment to test.
When i start a stream from kodi on another computer it fires up 8 ffmpeg processes (which is the transcoding i assume) (8 core machine) which immediately pegs all cores to 100%
This would indicate that nextpvr (or kodi, haven't ruled that out) deems it "necessary" to transcode.
However if i press stop, and just start the same channel again, it does not fire up the ffmpeg processes.
So in my mind that means it does not need to transcode this particular stream, which it could have tried in the first place.
So i have 1 question that perhaps someone might be able to help me with
is there a way to just outright disable transcoding? because it really isn't necessary
I thank you very much for your time and have a wonderful day