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atomarchio
Aug 06, 2015Tutor
Interested in buying ReadyNAS for use with Tivo
I am interested in purchasing Ready NAS product for use with Tivo. Is there a ReadyNAS product that is recommended? I only have 1TB of media which is mostly MKV, AVI, MP4. Does the ReadyNAS ...
MikeBob
Sep 01, 2015Aspirant
Yes, Plex does work with Tivo Roamio. I was going to give that a shot next and I'm not expecting real-time transcoding with the N104.
As to DLNA, I copied various mp4's to my N104 and the Tivo only could see the mpg's (The mp4's don't even show up in the list). If anybody has a ffmeg command to produce Tivo mp4's, I'd be happy to try it out.
I did verify that FF/RW doesn't work, even when the file is fully downloaded on the Tivo. Maybe this would be resolved with a better mpg conversion?
Thanks for correcting my mistake, the commands should have been:
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -qscale:v 1 "MyVideo.mpg"
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -crf 18 "MyVideo.mpg"
But I really have very little idea what I'm doing here... ffmpeg options are bit overwhelming. Some other more "standard" options I tired produced very poor video quality, so I ended up with the above. But your are correct, I wasn't keeping the files around after viewing. They end up being larger than the source file.
Thanks for the help.
StephenB
Sep 01, 2015Guru - Experienced User
Most of the more complicated options don't really matter in your use case. your qscale:v 1 option is constant-quality at the highest setting. If file size doesn't matter, and they play on your TiVo then you should be fine. Newer codecs would give you smaller file sizes, but likely won't give you better quality.
crf -18 for H.264 is the best quality in what some call the "sane" range. But I have no idea what it does with mpeg-2.
Perhaps you should use mediainfo (http://mediaarea.net/en-us/MediaInfo/Download/Windows) to confirm the audio/video codecs in your .mpg file.
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