Every so often a someone will start up a movie and stream from my system (remotely) and despite my hard settings that ALL remote media is to be capped at 720p/4mbps, it’ll direct stream without transcoding. all my media is 1080p so transcoding is easy.
I have someone remote streaming now and it’s direct-playing at 1080p. as per the pms dashboard it’s 1080p/4mbps… so while the bandwidth limitation is intact, i would still prefer it to transcode to 720p to lessen the bandwidth further.
If you have a 1080p file and it’s under the 4Mbps limit, then a 720p transcode will be more-or-less exactly 4Mbps, so you probably won’t be saving any bandwidth. If you have a 1080p file that is under 4Mbps, It’s quite unlikely that an in-time transcode will be smaller than the original file.
FYI, the “4Mbps, 720p” video quality limit is really the bit-rate, not the resolution. All that setting does is restrict the bandwidth to 4 or less, not the resolution. It’s only saying that - in general - 720p transcodes are a result when you do a 4 Mbps pipe restriction and you do a transcode. If your comp can do an in-time transcode that is 1080p while still under 4 Mbps, your server will serve up a 1080p video, despite it claiming a 720p quality.
