Hi!
In the plugin I’m currently working on, we have two different problems. (Dreambox-plugin, http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/58831-dreambox-plugin-01-is-done/)
1: We need transcoder support for streams, both for H.264 and Mpeg2. (HD uses H.264, SD uses Mpeg2) Will this be supported in near future? As others have pointed out, this is possible with ffmpeg and some workarounds, so it should be possible to implement easy?
2: We also need to define that the stream is NOT H.264. It seems like Plex assumes that everything is H.264, and also there is only H264 as a choice when defining the Video Codec of a MediaObject. (According to http://dev.plexapp.com/docs/api/constkit.html#module-VideoCodec). It seems like some clients, that would normally be able to play Mpeg2 in direct mode, will not work, maybe because of the wrong format? Any suggestions?
BR,
oysteing
1. I have no idea on that one, I have seen discussions of it before on the forums here (I think it was for EyeTV related stuff). From what I remember PMS didn't support transcoding them but some clients (i.e. Laika and other desktop clients) were able to play _some_ of the mpeg2 based streams directly. In those cases some were very odd mpeg2 TS streams. I have no idea if there are plans for supporting transcoding them or if it would be easy to do, sorry.
2. I think that constants list on the site is out of date, I'm pretty sure that you can set more into VideoCodec than H.264 ... and after peeking inside the framework yes, here's a list:
H263, H264, VP6, WVC1, DIVX, DIV4, XVID, THEORA
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