[mythtv-users] HTTP Live Stream Quality

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/12/2012 22:47, Byron Poland wrote:
> The bit rates are the main difference:   the Myth stream has an overall
> bitrate of 912 kbps vs 5866 kbps with plex.

MythTV does not set the profile, causing it to default to Baseline, and 
hard codes the level to 1.3.  At that configuration, video bitrate is 
artificially constrained to 786kbps rather than the 3000kbps you 
configured, and the maximum macroblock rates are abysmal.  The iPad 3 is 
capable of High 4.1, and the Plex encoding is Main 3.1.

Edit this line to a more reasonable level, recompile, and see what happens.

http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/tree/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/avformatwriter.cpp#n455