Hi, this could be my first support "call" ever (being in the IT industry..)
I have in the past (2-4 years ago) been happy on MC20 and 22 on Win7x64, streaming away on Android (BubbleUnPNP, MX player) but when MC23 came I upgraded and got a new Win10x64 server. Library imported fine, settnings etc. RO Standard, nothing touched. All playing great during movie nights and managing the music library for Sonos is great.
Also, during 2019 my family switched to iOS and JRemote as streaming front end but I can't seem to make this happen. On the APU, an old AMD A8-5500 (2C2T@3,3GHz, 8gb RAM) with a HD7560D iGPU the processor is maxed out and only seems to be able to transcode (?) a few minutes at the most. This is "as designed" I guess for platforms that don't support MKVs, FLAC etc?
44.1/16 FLACs (~1Mb/s) are fine, they need 5-10% CPU to be streamed so it's only video I'm having issues with.
Workaround try #1VLC on the iPad works great when on the home network but it can't access MC from remote networks.
I've tried VPN and had fights with multicast/UPNP ports, UDP, subnets and disabled FW and so on but nope..VLC won't get to the media servers or even SMB shares over VPN (assigning IP# in the same C net as the local hosts etc).
And, after JRemote 3.30 on iPad Pro and iPhone 6S crashes directly on both devices when I trying to play video (MP4, MKV, MPEG2 etc).. Don't know if this is a setting I have somehow left "on" or if 3.30 is to blame (iOS 13.3).
Workaround try #2I got a used nVidia GTX 1060 6GB this xmas thinking I could offload the transcoding to this more capable GPU. But sadly, RO HQ and madVR settings looks great for local playback but no change during streaming, even though the ..
transcoding during streaming still seems to be 99% CPU dependent. Most media is not hi-bitrate but 720-1080p in the 2-5Mb/s range so it's not a network capacity issue. OS and MC is running on an OK SATA Intel SSD, media is on local 2-6TB drives (110MB/s read).
Is there any chance of using the GPU for transcoding video during streming?
Settings/inf/various adjustments tried:
- C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 23\Temp\xxx is being filled with seg<#>.ts files of 5-6s length.
- The VideoStream.ts playlist file in the same directory has lines on the form (Panel):
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:8
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
/MCWS/v1/File/GetFile.ts?File=62186&Token=ztECYu0w&Conversion=WebPanel&Quality=High&Playback=2&HLS=1&Context=seg0.ts
..
- GTX1060 is showing "Video Decoding" to be 5-8% during the CPU (all 2C2T) is pegged at 100..
- Disable video buffer to disk (for low powered systems): no difference
- DLNA servers and Video settings, Mode: Specified output only when (h264 variants to be light/suitable to iOS)
Old thread but my situation seems similar, no solution though:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,114904.msg794456.html[/size]
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