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[hoyt]

I was going to try watching a recorded TV show remotely this week.  My internet upload at home is ok, but not great, so I RDP'd to my server and set Options > Media Network > Advanced > Video Conversion > MPEG2-TS 720p AutoFPS.  That seems to work pretty well, I can stream the video then (on another MC session).  But - I can't fast forward.  It shows me that the program is 4 hours long, but if I manually seek to anywhere, it just goes back to the beginning of the file. 

Is there another setting that I need to do for this, or do I need to convert the entire file as a separate process, then stream that?  Thanks!

[hoyt]

Is there any other way to do this besides converting the entire file?  That process seems to take forever on my media server.  Thanks!

[AndrewFG]

Just an idea. Do you have the server advanced settings "enable bit rate" checked?

[hoyt]

Just an idea. Do you have the server advanced settings "enable bit rate" checked?

Where is that setting?  I didn't find it jumping through the options...

[AndrewFG]

See screenshot

[hoyt]

See screenshot

I do not have that option set.  When playing across a library like that, are you using the DLNA settings?  I figured it wasn't...

[AndrewFG]

So you are playing from MC to MC. Right?

[hoyt]

So you are playing from MC to MC. Right?

Yes.

[AndrewFG]

Are you using a recent build of MC21? From the builds in about mid December onwards, there were significant improvements made in the support of video Seeking. Personally I tested this improved Seek functionality by push playing of videos from MC to a 3rd party renderer, and I did not test it pushing from MC to MC, however I see no reason for that not to work just as well.

[Hendrik]

Playing remotely from a MC server with conversion on does not use DLNA, and should have supported seeking for quite a while already.

[hoyt]

To be clear, I'm playing back on MC for Mac (20.0.31).  When I open the file, I get the attached screenshot.  There's no way to 'seek' forward because MC is always displaying the file as 5 seconds long.

In this case, I've take a JTV file and converted it to 480p to take bandwidth limitations out of the equation.

I can take that same file to JRemote and am able to seek to any spot.

[Hendrik]

Mac probably doesn't support seeking, since the video support is entirely distinct to the Windows version.
This is the type of information that would be helpful to have right away.

[hoyt]

Mac probably doesn't support seeking, since the video support is entirely distinct to the Windows version.
This is the type of information that would be helpful to have right away.

Does MC for Mac not support seeking in video?  That's a huge gap.... (and why I assumed it had to do with the conversion on the fly, not the fact that I was playing back in Mac).