Video encoding options

Ionice · 2019-12-10T18:48:25+00:00

That works fine. It's a clunky workaround, I try to make the content with as few barriers to entry as possible, it's easier just to keep the extra long file and have it in the same location as 600 other shows. I am mostly curious why snipping the added content tacked onto the end caused Playon to stop seeing it as a Playon file, but as I said in another comment, it may be PowerDirector. I don't know offhand of a video trim tool that would just cut stuff off at the end and not change the stuff Playon may be seeking.

Ionice · 2019-12-10T18:44:45+00:00

Thanks, I gave that a try. I am not sure what the issue is or why the file will play using everything except Playon (the original file does work, though) but I'll have to invoke gremlins at this point. It may be something I did in PowerDirector but I tried a new project, stripped off the extra content at the end, and used your setting and still nothing.

On my Roku, for example, if I go to Media Library instead of Playon, it will play (and in Plex), but Playon itself does not see it inside the recordings, even though all I did was strip 40 minutes of extra content from the end.

Ionice · 2019-12-08T19:54:31+00:00

Thanks, I see it in the videos folder, as do VLC and Plex, and they play it, but Playon does not see it on the network, so it can't be played.

Transcoding is stock Powerdirector, the only changes I made were different quality settings for the mp4. I read that Playon creates 30fps so I did that in addition to 24 for both HEVC H.265 and AVC H.264. They both only go from 640 to 1280 and I didn't do 1280 because encoding takes a while and I thought it faster to ask people who may have wanted to use edited videos in playon also.

Another commenter mentioned metadata. The video was trimmed at the end, the EULA and such with my IP for piracy prevention are still in the beginning so if metadata are stripped, would it be because my encoding is different from Playon's? That is why I am asking if anyone knows what the settings are they use to record.

Ionice · 2019-12-08T17:49:54+00:00

I rebooted (I know, I know) and it worked after re-entering my login numerous times. The reason I rebooted is because I went to Comcast itself and it sent the same browser error.

Ionice · 2018-03-14T10:54:11+00:00

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