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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. |
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So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think you get that level of |
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fine-grained control. You can't just pick the codec and features. |
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You pick the target platform (optimize for Android, or a generic |
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Optimize for "Mobile", etc), and you pick the resolution/bitrate from |
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a list of presets. I'm not sure how easy it is to tweak the actual |
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settings, though maybe it is possible. |
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On MythTV the transcoder isn't exactly super-flexible either. |
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On either platform you could also do your own transcoding. With |
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MythTV the regular player tends to be pretty picky about how files are |
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encoded (at least it used to be). Plex will play just about anything |
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you throw at it. |
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> One open question is handling of closed-captioning in ATSC recordings. |
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> Results with Plex seem to be mixed. |
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I've found captions mostly work, but I don't use them much, and I |
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haven't used the DVR functionality. I couldn't tell you how well they |
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work with ATSC. The bigger pain is the way they're encoded into |
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shows. If they're done right you can do things like have captions |
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only for foreign language phrases (works great in Star Trek |
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Discovery). If the subtitles aren't set up the way it expects then |
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you find yourself constantly turning them on/off when the show |
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contains extensive use of foreign/fictional languages. I suspect the |
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issue is more in my source material there, though I can't vouch for |
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how well it works over ATSC. With ATSC I'd think that foreign |
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language subtitles would be more likely to be burned in anyway. |
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Rich |
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