6/20/2023 0 Comments Emby client apple tvInstead of direct playing the file, the Infuse player would play the transcoded stream.Ĭould be handy if you are out on a business trip where the hotel has only a garbage connection and you want to stream from your home network… The Advantage would be, that on a low bandwidth network, the Emby / Plex server could transcode the 4K Hires movie to 720p low res and send the transcoded stream to Infuse. Even with Emby/Plex being able to use their transcoding options, Infuse will always use its own player to play the movie stream. Sorting for example or managing collections is also a pain in the a… (at least it was before Infuse had custom collections )Īnd you mix transcoding and encoding. With pure Infuse its quite complicated to replace a movie poster that is downloaded from TMDB with the one you prefer. If you link Infuse to Emby/Plex/Jellyfin because you prefer the way those programs manage your library to the way Infuse does (which is 1/2 of what Infuse exists for), but also prefer the way Emby/Plex/Jellyfin transcodes and streams lower-bandwidth versions of your content over the internet (playing back local and remote content being the other 1/2 of what Infuse exists for) … what is left for Infuse to do? Why use it at all?īut to be honest, Infuse does very bad at managing meta data. Why not just use Emby/Plex/Jellyfin directly? Given your explanation of what the current situation is, my question to Emby/Plex/Jellyfin users wanting Emby/Plex/Jellyfin transcoding accesible via infuse is … Why? Thus, I suspect Infuse will only begin supporting transcoding of users’ content if Firecore decides to write their own suite of server-side software, giving them complete control over the entire process. If Firecore gives up control of that to other apps (or even to AppleTV’s built-in player, which I once saw requested) and things fail to play because those apps don’t have the wide-ranging codec support or robustness of Infuse’s own player, than Infuse users would be likely to hold that against Infuse and demand Infuse fix it, even when Infuse had nothing to do with it. I don’t know how complicated using Plex/Emby/Jellyfin’s encoding would be, but I suspect that’s not likely to be added to Infuse’s roadmap anytime soon because Firecore seems pretty focused on making sure EVERYTHING a user throws at it plays correctly, without issue. That is what I suspected but not having used Plex/Emby/Jellyfin I wasn’t certain. So for now we can use the mentioned to manage our library but nothing more. It was mentioned, that this feature might make it for future versions of Infuse, but seems that it is not important or easy to implement or what ever. Requesting one of the media servers to transcode and send the transcoded stream is STILL NOT SUPPORTED. Infuse will ALWAYS direct play the files. Others might chime in here.Ĭurrently Infuse uses Emby, Plex, Jellyfin as media Server only. Infuse has limited support for Plex and other media servers, but I’m unaware if that includes supporting those apps transcoding or simply using them to manage the media library (as I don’t use anything but Infuse). Plex and Jellyfin have both Server and Client apps. I don’t have any idea if that’s on their long-term roadmap, but it would appear to me to be a big switch of focus from what they currently seem to be striving to create. All it can do is stream the original file.įirecore would need to create server-side apps for a multitude of devices that run on multiple different operating systems. To transcode, Infuse would need to reside where the files are, (such as on a users’ NAS) and be able to use that hardware to decode and reencode video files (at lower bitrates) to send those transcoded files out over the internet.Ī client app (that lives on your iOS device or Mac) can’t reach through the internet, access a high bandwidth file, and transcode it remotely so that it has a low enough bandwidth to send it back to you over the internet. It only has client apps (on iOS, tvOS, and MacOS) that access files stored elsewhere. To add more context: Infuse is not a file server.
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