Subsonic Forum

Sol I've read a few threads, but I'm just wondering if subsonic 4.4 is using the best ffmpeg and if not how I can change it? Right now my mkv playback is choppy when remotely viewed, i have a 1.5mbpos upload and 12mbps download, with 8gb ram and a 2.8Ghz core2quad cpu.

AVI, MPEG, MP4 etc all run fine. It;s just mkv's and high quality 720p video I'm having trouble iwth, evne with just one user connected at a time.

What can I do to improve this please?

thank you

Any transcoding taxes the cpu. I preformat all my video into either mp4 or flv so that I can bypass any transcoding and just play the video directly to JW Player. This way you can stream multipe videos simultaneaously without significant load on the cpu. If you do that, performance will only be limited by connection speed and hardware of the playback system.

ok thank you wiill will try and convert to mp4.

is there anyway to limit the bandwidth used by users - so for examplei Want to limit so that users can't use more than 500kbps [per user.

I went to settings>advanced as admin but I only found options for download/upload limits for downloading videos. Will these same options limit the bandwidth when streaming?

one more thing I'm also having a domain problem. It says my name is already in use (for the domain) but before i donated it was fine - now though it says it's in use sometimes, or sometime sit will say it it found it but did not authenticate. Any suggestions on this?

thank you for your help

If you want to limit video bandwidth, just format the video for that kbps. AVS video converter, and I'm sure others, lets me select what bit rate I want to use.

On the domain name, if it says the name is in use, I'd try to hit it with my browser just to verify. If it is in use, then someone else already is using that name. Just try something different. If that still causes problems, test external connection ablility by using your external IP address and port number.

e.g. http://98.117.185.5:8084/