@rowmoney said:
The audio is now a direct stream but there is still the seemingly unnecessary video transcoding happening. I am using a Rock64 (like a raspberry pi) as my server, so I have almost no CPU power at all available for transcoding. I had to dial back the transcode quality to “internet540” in HDHR Viewer and “medium 540p” in the DVR device settings to stop the buffering.
Has anyone had any luck eliminating the video transcoding?
looks like this might be about the bitrate being not supported by your player (right container, right codec, too high quality/bitrate).
you can double-check this in the logs after attempting this playback (Settings > Server > Help > Download Logs, check out Plex Media Server.log by looking for lines labelled with the prefix MDE:). If the bitrate is your bottleneck, you could consider doing a transcode w/ e.g. Handbrake.
