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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Mac => Topic started by: hoyt on December 23, 2015, 01:38:37 pm
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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!
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Is there any other way to do this besides converting the entire file? That process seems to take forever on my media server. Thanks!
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Just an idea. Do you have the server advanced settings "enable bit rate" checked?
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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...
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See screenshot
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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...
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So you are playing from MC to MC. Right?
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So you are playing from MC to MC. Right?
Yes.
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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.
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Playing remotely from a MC server with conversion on does not use DLNA, and should have supported seeking for quite a while already.
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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.
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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. :D
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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. :D
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).