My situation may be unusual, but here are the painful details. Yet the number of people who paint themselves into a corner with one of those remains high even though there have been far superior streaming devices on the market for over 4 years now.
The PS3 and Xbox both got surpassed permanently as home streaming devices over FOUR YEARS AGO. IPhones do not support MPEG-2 without the use of non-free 3rd party software. Who has a "home with more than 20 possible clients"? Clearly whatever your situation is, it's highly unusual. But I prefer to transcode once, rather than every time a video is watched. Now, I guess, I could have my server transcode videos on-the-fly. So far, the only format that seems acceptable to the majority is MPEG2. There will always be a lot of different clients. I have to find a format that can be accepted by the most different clients.
in a home with more than 20 possible clients, that run the gamut from PS3 to Android tablets and iPhones and Droids. who knows? And I am sure I could find lots of different network routers and adapters. Maybe, there are faster more capable tablets. Perhaps there are better more capable PS3's out there, maybe more capable blu-ray players (I have 3 of them in addition to my PS3). But, let me assure you that the equipment I own is far from "cheap". Perhaps I am stupid, for buying the consumer video equipment that I have. dga file and feed that into HCenc.ģ) Produce MPEG-2 output with HCenc to your desired specifications. dga file.Ģ) Write an AviSynth script that can open the. The cost is nothing though.ġ) Open the VC-1 file in MeGUI and use the File Indexer option to create a. However, this requires a LOT of learning on your part. I don't work with VC-1 but I have a possible way that might work.
Have you considered that maybe it would be a better idea to do your streaming with something that didn't require you to convert? It's your life and your money but personally I'd rather not have to convert "a bunch of videos" just because all my network can deal with is MPEG-2 and I was too cheap to buy something that would stream my videos as is.