G+_Ryan Ellerbe Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Plex question: So I have a hdhomerun connect and watch over the air on plex using a Nvidia shield. I did this so that I can watch the pure mpeg2 stream. I have a problem with 1080i content, where is starts to stutter after 5 to 10 mins of watching the channel. I started just having it re-encode to 720p on the fly. This seems to work great but plex will only let me do 4 mbps at 720p. Does anyone know how to add high bit rates at 720p? I am trying to get as close to original Aired live content as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe 720p (progressive scan) is better than 1080i (interlaced). And for 720p30 H.264, 4 Mbps is pretty good. Here's screenshot from the TWiT live stream, which seems to be a variable bitrate around 4~6 Mbps. Their stream is 720p60. The reason 720p is better than 1080i... Interlacing splits the horizontal scans by every other pixel. Instead of 1920x1080 pixels 30 times a second, I think you get 1920x540 30 times a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ryan Ellerbe Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 Ben Reese yeah that is why it seems that the built in player (exoplayer) seems to struggle with 1080i. This is the reason for now, I want to convert the stream to 720p. I was just hoping to do better than 4 mbps, because I can see some of the detail being lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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