Hi,
I have installed PMS 0.9.2.3 on my windows xp laptop (core 2 duo) and I am accessing it from my 32LV375S TV through media link. when i try to watch a movie (MKV with DTS) my processors stay at almost 100%. I understand that plex uses ffmpeg to transcode the DTS to mp3, but this should not take all the processing power. Investigating further, I found out the ffmpeg process:
“D:\Programs\Plex\Plex Media Server\ffmpeg.exe” transcode http://192.168.2.150…ary/parts/10470 “C:\DOCUME~1\mariuse\LOCALS~1\Temp\plex-transcode-7d409ae6-3417-434b-9ef9-5e0b3d65deba\media” 10 1 0 any nil 0.0 yes UTF-8 default “” “” 0.75 nil none “” “” “” 3355443 yes
If i run it manually, it works as under plex (100% CPU):
!!! Will NOT copy the audio stream
!!! Will NOT copy the video stream
Google says that this means that video gets transcoded also. I do not understand why. The tv is capable of playing back the video (it works from the USB stick minus the sound).
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x544, PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
The bottom line: why is plex doing video transcoding ???
I tweaked the command a line a bit: if I use the following parameters, Plex will no perform video transcoding:
10 1 0 any nil 0.0 yes UTF-8 default “” “” 0.75 av high 1080 41 “” 3355443 yes
These parameter value come from the capabilities sent by the Media Link; then why doesn’t plex call ffmpeg with these parameter values ? How can we adjust this ?
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