Server Version#: 1.20.3.3483
Player Version#: 1.21.0.1410-50a34597
I have been forced to use an old laptop as a player due to the recent Panasonicgate disaster, and I was wondering if there is a way to make my server do all the transcoding to help minimise the workload on the ancient laptop that Tony Robinson found in an old pottery jar underneath some Roman coins? At the moment its playing some old 480p video at around 99c!
I will be investing in a second hand Xbox One X to use as a media streamer in the near future, but just want to see if there is a way to stop the old lappy from dying of extreme heatstroke…
You can go down and buy a Roku or Fire stick for about $25-$50 that would play 4K and everything else plus it’s portable. Why fight with something like this?
Thanks, I’m playing files from my server, through an old laptop HDMI to TV. I’m on Plex media Player at the moment, but downloading Plex for Windows now - I’ll give that a go and get back to you…
if your laptop player is having problems with direct play of non-4k content, then transcoding on the server is not really going to lighten the load an appreciable amount.
there really isn’t any way to ‘force’ transcoding… most people are trying to avoid it at all costs…
if you are trying to play hevc/x265 content on the old laptop, then the only way I can think of is to drop the bandwidth limits of the client on the local network…
something like this (this is plex web, but others should have similar settings) note you might have to uncheck the ‘use recommended settings’
Just realised that it’ll be the laptop’s onboard GPU or CPU whatever outputs the pixels… I’ve just halved the TV’s resolution to QHD, and dropped 5c! Sometimes I over think the problem…
Thanks for your help, I’ll give your settings a go now and see what happens
No change in temperature, but there was a slight stuttering in playback thats stopped now, so theres a plus… Looks like this old lappy is in for a Viking funeral!!
