Just noticed on web ui playback that “Remux” is running (at a higher bitrate) than previous “Transcode”.
What’s up?
P.S. I changed deinterlacer to hardware earlier today on Qnap 251A???
Remux is used when recordings are already in H264. No transcoding is needed so it is always very fast.
Hardware deinterlacing is the recommended setting and will increase transcode speeds when unable to remux.
Sneaky Comcast changed over to H.264 yesterday without any notification. 
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Congrats!
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I’m not sure if Congrats are truly in order. H.264 channels from Comcast in my area look like garbage their bitrate is so low. I have to make sure all the local channels are recorded from my OTA Connect.
Local channels are never transmitted in H264. But perhaps are they are lowering the bitrate and re-encoding as mpeg2.
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You’re right, I forgot about that. Just did a quick compare looking at the tuners, NBC via comcast was around 10-12Mbps, NBC via OTA was ~16Mpbs
Yep, cable companies have been doing that since forever and it has nothing to do with H264. Getting cable channels in H264 is great, because they look the same but use much less bandwidth and storage. And less CPU to transcode because it can remux in many cases.
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Just saw an article about this from a few days ago: