This reminds me why I bought a 5930K

[therealnickdanger]

do we lose video or sound quality if we stream it wireless to our TV's using whatever modern methods, like chromecast+plex, apple products+apple tv, etc?

just wondering if i should keep my laptop with me or have it sitting next to the tv, to play videos or music.

If you transcode it and stream it, you most definitely lose quality. How much you notice is up to you and your display. If you stream it 1:1, then you lose nothing. If your WiFi isn't up to the task, then it simply won't play or play well at all.

1:1 backups + hard wired = happiness.

 

[TeknoBug]

hahaha

/facepalm

 

[poofyhairguy]

For future reference a Pi 2 or 3 can play every dvd rip without reencoding/transcoding once you buy the codec pack.

 

[mnewsham]

Quicksync quality sucks, anyone doing encodes with quicksync are only going for speed, the latest version with skylake is a bit better for quality, but still an ASIC will never be able to encode to the quality of a good software encoder will. Not to mention the debanding and other fixes you can do if you know what you're doing with a software encoder.

A good quality encode can look better than source if you end up fixing banding or other issues that were in the source. (though a good quality source shouldnt have this, but that's another issue)

 

[Iron Woode]

110min film in just under 15min? Using the "medium" preset | High Profile @ L4.1 in Handbrake and aiming for half decent quality? Quicksync won't match that quality AND speed.

I just tried the same thing using my I5 4570 and a constant bit rate setting of 15 instead of the default 20.

it took 20 mins.

so...meh.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The Z3735F seems to support it without issue. Much faster than using it's CPU cores. Great if transcoding DVDs on a cheap, fanless device were my pastime.

Encoding DVDs isn't something I do a lot of.

On the other hand, a good 75% of my work day involves using various javascript-heavy web applications. An Atom would be basically unusable. But I'd trade the 3770 for a ~5GHz i3 in a heartbeat.

 

[poofyhairguy]

A good quality encode can look better than source if you end up fixing banding or other issues that were in the source. (though a good quality source shouldnt have this, but that's another issue)

Better to do that quality upgrade in the player as you play it if you can, that way you get the benefits of fixed issues without the data loss of transcoding.

Just takes more power in the frontend, thats all.

 

[escrow4]

For future reference a Pi 2 or 3 can play every dvd rip without reencoding/transcoding once you buy the codec pack.

Not HEVC. And fiddling with it eh.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Not HEVC. And fiddling with it eh.

No, not HEVC but no video DVD is encoded in HEVC and I just meant DVD rips. You need a Nvidia Shield for HEVC.

No real fiddling on a Shield though. Step 1 Install Kodi, Step 2 Use it. Way more fiddling transcoding or re-encoding everything to use a crappier front end.

And unlike a generic crap ARM box the Shield has full Android TV compatibility with a real (i.e. Meant for a TV) version of Netflix.

 

[Raduque]

I'm using Plex on my server. It transcodes OTF to anything with the Plex app (and can even do DLNA for unsupported devices, provided there's a transcode profile available somewhere). My 8-core Xeon 2670 laughs at 3 transcoded 1080p high bitrate L4.1 w/DTS-HD streams at once to 3 separate devices.