I am using an Odroid-C1 as my server, as of right now transcoding is disabled for ARM devices. What I would like to see is a symbol (or something) on the details section of videos to indicate if that file can be direct played or not. Also on Android the client requires transcoding if subtitles ar…

I like this idea also. To add one more scenario, if I’m browsing on my phone/tablet while casting to Chromecast the transcode indicator should be set based on the Chromecast rather than the phone/tablet.

You already have this basic information available on the media info page. Where it tells you Web Optimized: Yes or No. This is a good indicator of if the media is going to need transcoding for a vast majority of the clients that are set up for the media’s bandwidth requirements. Barring this, th…

The client could send a file to the server with the formats it can play. This way the server knows which clients can play what files. This doesn’t seem difficult to me but then again in not a developer.

I think this should be a client side feature if implemented in some way. The server does not know about the need for transcoding until the client requests the video and, at that point, displaying that on the servers “media info” screen seems quite unnecessary. Perhaps when a video is started the tr…

This would be a step towards the very useful information of weather or not you’ll be able to stream the movie in real-time without interruptions.

As wi11wright mentioned it would be useful to know if a video requires transcoding when casting as well. If the data on which clients is stored server side it would make this simple as all clients would only need to comunicating with just the server.

I use Odroid-C1 as my server as well and it can handle transcoding without problems.

[Feature Request] Indicate if a Video Requires Transcoding on the Details Screen

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[Feature Request] Indicate if a Video Requires Transcoding on the Details Screen

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