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February 14, 2011 05:28 PM

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bodieq

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I just bought my PogoPlug and hooked up a 1.5TB Seagate External drive to it that had a duplicate copy of all my media from iTunes (Movies, Music, TV Shows).

Everything was already living and working happily in iTunes because I had encoded it using Handbrake, imported it all into iTunes to stream happily to the Apple TV. All is well.

I buy a PogoPlug, and go to access my "already transcoded H.264" videos and all I get are the 10 second preview, and a LONG, SLOW list of "videos that need to be transcoded". WHAT?!?!

The whole reason I got the PogoPlug was because it worked in streaming my already-transcoded library of video.

Someone please enlighten me. Why is it trying to transcode .m4v and .mp4 files again?

Thanks

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February 15, 2011 3:15 PM

Did you turn transcoding off? Settings => Media Settings => Optimize your videos for playback => Never

That should fix your problem--the Pogoplug should be able to play back pre-encoded videos in formats it supports.

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February 22, 2011 5:52 PM

Peter Redmer said: Did you turn transcoding off? Settings => Media Settings => Optimize your videos for playback => Never That should fix your problem--the Pogoplug should be able to play back pre-encoded videos in formats it supports.

OK.  So I think I finally grasp all this transcoding shim-sham.  Pogoplug will transcode ALL videos (even if they're already stream-ready) if the auto-transcode setting is on.  It will transcode NO videos if the setting is off (i.e., "never").


Let's say I have a folder of web/stream-ready h.264 MP4s and a folder of AVIs sitting on my PP.  If I ever want to stream the AVI files to my iOS device, then my PP will have to endure the "wasted" efforts of transcoding the MP4s, too, right?

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