Beelink MinPC - not enough?

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

I am trying to use a Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N100(up to 3.4GHz), 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB PCIe SSD. I am not sure it has enough horsepower to transcode?

When I try to watch a show on my iPHone or iPad externally (using cellular), it just spins. The Channels servers is saying (I x'd out the IP address): Watching ch5.2 from AMP’s iPhone 15 (xxx.xxx.xxx.125) (Transcoder Starting at 700kbps: 2m49s): strength=100% quality=100% symbol=100% rate=1.6Mb/sec buf=0% drop=0%

When I watch is using Wifi at home, no problem.

Doesn't that mean is should be working? Sorry, what am I missing? Thanks!

#2

Is Channels DVR using hardware transcoding? Look under advanced in your Channels DVR browser.

#3

Looks like it....

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#4

Looks good it should be sufficient enough. Under support trouble shooting can you run the tests.? Just to make sure everything looks good.

#5

Thanks. All green except for DNS ad blocking for TV everywhere. I do test with normal OTA channels so I don't think that is an issue.

#6

The n100 beelink has plenty of power to transcode multiple streams at a time. As a test to eliminate cellular network bandwidth you can set one of your home clients to 8MB in playback settings and try to watch something.

#7

Interesting.... on both my iPhone and iPad and my Mac Mini (using the iPad app), I set Playback/Streaming to 8MB and have them connected to WIFI and they all spin. Setting them back to "Original" and on Wiifi, they play normally.

#8

Try linear deinterlacer and if that doesn’t work submit diagnostics. Are you using experimental hevc transcoding?

#9

Linear did not work unfortunately. I submitted logs:

Logs have been submitted as db0d00d8-9285-4c11-8a32-d8bd9ca28baf .

#10

Found it! I somehow had "Use HEVC for transcoding" checked. Sorry!

I transferred from my iMac to this MiniPC and I guess that worked on the iMac as the server. Anyway, all is fine now.

Thank you!

#11