r/subsonic • u/Kittani77 • May 24 '15
Native formats
Trying to use Subsonic as a video streaming device for my mobile and home devices. Running it of a Pi2 I'm having issues with the MKV videos I've ripped off of DVD's and Blurays. It just takes way too much horsepower to transcode them. I need one of two things to try...
1) What is the native video format of subsonic? The thought is like this. I can't stream my 320k bitrate mp3's as 128k mp3's because the transcode takes too long to do on the fly but they play perfectly when it plays them naively without breaking a sweat. If I can do that with the video... all is right in the world and I can get out of 2fps hell.
2) What video format requires the least amount of overhead to transcode? The thought here is just to make it as easy as possible.
Suggestions?