is it possible to make PMS transcode a/v-content, while this is streamed over DLNA ??
this question regards Debian 9.
if I understand it correctly, profile determine what the specs of a/v-files must be. if the specs don’t match, than PMS will transcode the files.
this works fine if the media is streamed with the plex-app in the TV.
but when the DLNA-server of PMS is used and files are streamed directly to the TV, without using the plex-app of the TV, than the media will not be transcoded.
my question is: how can I use transcoding, together with DLNA ??
Both threads are dealing explicitly with DLNA clients, not with ‘real’ Plex clients.
You’ll have to write a new profile or adapt an existing one to the abilities of your target device.
From my personal experience that is easier said than done. Take inspiration from these two threads and try your luck.
yes, ok, but I am trying to stream a media-file to my TV, which is too much for my TV.
my TV is 4 years old and does not support H265.
when I stream such a file with the TV-app, it will be transcoded.
doing so with DLNA, I get an error message about the network-connection.
so, it has to be transcoded, one way or the other.
There is no way to teach an old tv how to support a modern video codec. A codec which is much more complex and difficult to decode. That’d be magic.
So yes, there is only the way to transform/transcode the source video file into a format which the tv can understand. Whether you do it automatically with the native plex app or by using the generic DLNA player and a custom hardware profile, doesn’t make much of a difference.
I don’t think I am trying to make my TV do things, it is not capable of.
what I would like is that Plex-DLNA would activated transcoding, if required, just like Plex-server is doing, when the Samsung Plex-app is used.
I have looked at the Samsung Smart TV profile and it matches the specifications of my TV.
but when I stream an A/V-file over DLNA and the specs are beyond of what my TV can handle, than I get an error and Plex does not move to transcoding.
where can I see, that my TV is actually using the Samsung Smart TV profile ??
That’s all described in the first link I gave you
yes, ok, I have looked at almost everything that I could find about creating and modifying profiles.
but this is basically impossible to do.
and I’m surely not the only one struggeling with this problem.
would it not be a good idea to bring this to the attention of the software developers, so that transcoding over DLNA works the same as transcoding over the TV-app ??
The reason why it is working in “real” Plex clients is that
a) those clients can do some things, which a generic DLNA client cannot do. Particularly they can communicate their playback abilities back to the server
b) the abilities of these clients have already been determined and put down into pre-made hardware profiles which are included by default with the server installation
So this Transcoding together with DLNA unfortunately has no big chance of getting implemented.
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