Tue May 19, 2015 6:11 pm
MediaBrowser - stream using HTML5 / RTSP, not Flash
Hello,
I run Serviio on my little Raspberry Pi 2. It's superb, and does everything I want it to, including streaming Blu-Ray quality 1080p video to my PCs, tablets, and PS3.
The only issue the RPi2 has is that it's not powerful enough for transcoding. To make my media compatible with most devices, the container is MP4, the video format is MPEG2, and the audio format is AAC. Like I said, works on all my devices using normal DLNA streaming.
However, MediaBrowser uses Flash, so Serviio has to transcode the media into FLV format on the fly. And it stops and stutters constantly, as the little Pi can't keep up, even using all four cores, and even overclocked. And that's just DVD-quality rips - it'd never manage 1080p HD stuff.
What I'd like MediaBrowser to have options for in future would be HTML5 playback, so it can stream MP4 video without needing to transcode. This would also remove MediaBrowsers' dependency on Adobe Flash, opening up compatibility with a lot of devices. You could also allow MediaBrowser to stream MP4 via RTSP, but I reckon HTML5 would work best for now. I also gather HTML5 has scope for DRM capability, to stop people recording streamed media, if DRM is the reason Flash is still the only choice.
Even if it's customizable, and Flash is still the default choice, but you could elect to use a different format if you wanted.
Any possibility of this happening?
Kind regards
Graeme
I run Serviio on my little Raspberry Pi 2. It's superb, and does everything I want it to, including streaming Blu-Ray quality 1080p video to my PCs, tablets, and PS3.
The only issue the RPi2 has is that it's not powerful enough for transcoding. To make my media compatible with most devices, the container is MP4, the video format is MPEG2, and the audio format is AAC. Like I said, works on all my devices using normal DLNA streaming.
However, MediaBrowser uses Flash, so Serviio has to transcode the media into FLV format on the fly. And it stops and stutters constantly, as the little Pi can't keep up, even using all four cores, and even overclocked. And that's just DVD-quality rips - it'd never manage 1080p HD stuff.
What I'd like MediaBrowser to have options for in future would be HTML5 playback, so it can stream MP4 video without needing to transcode. This would also remove MediaBrowsers' dependency on Adobe Flash, opening up compatibility with a lot of devices. You could also allow MediaBrowser to stream MP4 via RTSP, but I reckon HTML5 would work best for now. I also gather HTML5 has scope for DRM capability, to stop people recording streamed media, if DRM is the reason Flash is still the only choice.
Even if it's customizable, and Flash is still the default choice, but you could elect to use a different format if you wanted.
Any possibility of this happening?
Kind regards
Graeme