Manage Bitrate In M3U Settings for Custon Channel

Tryintg to feed a channel from one server to another (via Tailscale) and keep getting intermitent buffering to complete failure of stream.

I set the bitrate of the stream in the local server pulling from the remote server with the following:

#EXTINF:-1 channel-id="6003" tvg-id="3001" tvg-chno="3001" tvg-logo="https://sbgi.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/LOGO_WGFL_CBS4_solid_station_blk.jpg" tvc-guide-stationid="42916" tvg-name="WGFLDT" group-title="HD",CBS
http://REMOTESERVERIP:8089/devices/ANY/channels/6003/hls/master.m3u8?bitrate=2000&indexed=true&resolution=720&ssize=1&vcodec=h264

However, when I log into the remote server and check the logs, it's coming in at a much higher bitrate according to the logs in the remote server:

2023/11/05 13:38:21.541496 [HLS] Starting live stream for channel 6003 from 100.76.7.3 **(bitrate=9858)**

It's setup as HLS Stream Format in the Custom Channels Setting? Any insight into what I am doing wrong?

Just a guess but I don’t think 2000 is compatible with the 720 you have. Try 3500 for bitrate or change 720 to 576 and see if that lowers it down.

DELTED, will play around more and repost results.