@Nemo:
I'm not sure if I understood you correctly. Is it something like this that you were looking for? Or what you want is for me to transcode the video "on the fly" by playing it in another format than the original.
I think Plex or some similar DLNA server did something similar.
If it's not, could you explain it to me as if I were a fish a bit lost in the ocean? ;D
Best regards
That's one of the ones I had seen, but even though it says download for free everywhere, it turns out that the lifetime subscription costs $40. Anyway, I can try it and if it really offers advantages, I'll buy it.
@cobito:
Well, since you're a Linux user, you can try FFmpeg. Since version 2.6, it has support for hardware video encoding on Nvidia cards through NVENC. I've also read that in more recent versions they have managed to encode hardware with Intel GPUs. Anyway, these two options are not good for obtaining final results since, although the encoding is very fast, the quality leaves much to be desired. It's more for previewing results. Here is an example of the result with NVENC.
Apart from that, I don't know anything.
I had read about FFmpeg and was waiting to see if Handbrake ended up using the new versions, which is always easier with a GUI, but if it loses quality, that puts me off. I imagine that then it will do something similar to converting audio from WAV or CD to MP3, which invents things, in one case to gain compression and in another to take less time.
I'll have to keep trying things, although I see that it will be better to use the microphone and see how the Xeon behaves, since the Athlon AM1 takes 4 hours and the i5-2400s takes half an hour, so I'll give it at most an hour with the Xeon.