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What format should I transcode and remux videos to? - HansJA - 2024-06-26
If I use the standard Kodi player, what video, audio, subtitle and mux formats can I safely expect to always work without issues?
I have a rather huge collection of videos encoded and muxed to various standards.
And I would like to know what format(s) to convert that collection to.
The errors i have seen so far include
Videoplayback too fast and stopping to resync with audio like every 3-20 seconds.
Subtitles completely unsynced and varying randomly when play restarted
Audio codec not supported.
and various other errors too numerous to list.
Playing these items back in MX player and in VLC works well in many more instances than when using the Kodi player.
All items are in all cases played back as served from Serviio v 2, but these problems are exactly the same when playing from an SMB share. VLC and MX also work exactly the same from dlna as from smb.
RE: What format should I transcode and remux videos to? - jbinkley60 - 2024-06-26
(2024-06-26, 13:40)HansJA Wrote: If I use the standard Kodi player, what video, audio, subtitle and mux formats can I safely expect to always work without issues?
I have a rather huge collection of videos encoded and muxed to various standards.
And I would like to know what format(s) to convert that collection to.
The errors i have seen so far include
Videoplayback too fast and stopping to resync with audio like every 3-20 seconds.
Subtitles completely unsynced and varying randomly when play restarted
Audio codec not supported.
and various other errors too numerous to list.
Playing these items back in MX player and in VLC works well in many more instances than when using the Kodi player.
All items are in all cases played back as served from Serviio v 2, but these problems are exactly the same when playing from an SMB share. VLC and MX also work exactly the same from dlna as from smb.
Are you saying you are having playback problems with Serviio or not ? If so, I am surprised that Serviiio doesn't have a device profile or similar for Kodi to handle the proper transcoding formats. Some other DLNA servers have this feature so the user isn't left to figure it out. DO be away that if you are doing on-the-fly transcoding some features like FF, RW and such can be impacted since the file / stream is still being transcoded. There are too many variable here to predict the results.
Having aid this, if you are looking to manually reencode your library or standardize on video container and audio codec formats (i highly recommend this) I would suggest the MKV container, with h.264 or h.265 video encoding with DTS, AC-r or similar audio codecs. For my library I allow Dolby Atmos and TrueHD.
I hope this is what you are looking for \.
Thanks,
Jeff