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No transcoding?!
Just bought the Readynas Ultra 2 Plus for streaming media to my PS3 by a good WiFi network. I chose the Ultra 2 Plus because it has a dualcore processor powerful enough for transcoding my movies so t...
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The problem goes a little deeper though...
Ive sucessfully transcoded videos on the fly with my old PC in the past using "TVersity". That crappy old PC i a single core AMD 1.2Ghz, 512 RAM and a slow memory-bus that runs in only 330. That old PC did it for me. Problem though is that is sounds as a vaccum-cleaner, for that reason I really want the NAS to manage it right, Its the future...
Ive never tested 1080p material on my old PC but 720P worked fine. Ive recently read about a transcoding test thats works on a far slower NAS than mine. The important thing seems to be to do the transcoding in the right way. Many old-style transcoders just converts the whole file and creates a new one on the fly and that takes alot of horsepower. A modern way of transcoding is just to swap the container on the file (example from avi to mpeg) and let the rest just slide by in the stream. The diffrence in CPU usage is huge and the technique is not hard to manage or exotic in any manner.
I just hope that someone will solve this problem...
The problem goes a little deeper though...
Ive sucessfully transcoded videos on the fly with my old PC in the past using "TVersity". That crappy old PC i a single core AMD 1.2Ghz, 512 RAM and a slow memory-bus that runs in only 330. That old PC did it for me. Problem though is that is sounds as a vaccum-cleaner, for that reason I really want the NAS to manage it right, Its the future...
Ive never tested 1080p material on my old PC but 720P worked fine. Ive recently read about a transcoding test thats works on a far slower NAS than mine. The important thing seems to be to do the transcoding in the right way. Many old-style transcoders just converts the whole file and creates a new one on the fly and that takes alot of horsepower. A modern way of transcoding is just to swap the container on the file (example from avi to mpeg) and let the rest just slide by in the stream. The diffrence in CPU usage is huge and the technique is not hard to manage or exotic in any manner.
I just hope that someone will solve this problem...
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