zsolmanz 1 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I've set up some path substitutes along these lines: D:\Movies \\SRV\Movies and TV\Movies This works perfectly from all the clients that connect to my server over the network, so movies and TV shows display 'Direct' as their quality setting whilst playing. However, when using Emby on the server to display media from itself, the 'Direct' quality setting disappears and I only get a choice of streaming qualities. Furthermore, I get buffering and stuttering which doesn't occur using VLC to watch the same files directly. I don't really understand what's happening here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hi, Web browsers have only limited format support. When your media doesn't match the browser's supported formats, we have to use a process called transcoding to convert it on the fly. You can learn more about that in our wiki here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Transcoding Of interest to you might be the section titled Why Is My Media Transcoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchstick 6 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I'm having an issue getting the path substituion to work right. I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong. My Movie folder is located on my UNRAID server Kraken. I mapped the drive to TITAN which has Plex Server installed under Z:\Movies. I added this folder as a Movie library folder. How would I apply the path substituion? I tried: Z:\Movies -----> \\Kraken\Movies This didn't work. I keep Direct streaming which I don't want. I really want to get Direct Play working again for my new Nvidia Shield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) Just use the unraid path as the path to your movies in Emby, mapping the path to a drive and then using path substitution is completely redundant and overly complicated Edited November 29, 2015 by Vidman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchstick 6 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Just use the unraid path as the path to your movies in Emby, mapping the path to a drive and then using path substitution is completely redundant and overly complicated I did this and the server is still direct streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 What client are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zsolmanz 1 Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Hi, Web browsers have only limited format support. When your media doesn't match the browser's supported formats, we have to use a process called transcoding to convert it on the fly. You can learn more about that in our wiki here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Transcoding Of interest to you might be the section titled Why Is My Media Transcoding? Yup, spot on. I assumed when watching a series that the encoding would remain the same, and the video encoding did - but by sheer coincidence I was streaming AAC audio to my other computer and DTS on the server, so the server was transcoding. Now I'll just find a way to put AAC audio with all my media, on top of their other formats. Thanks for the help! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 If you are using MKV containers, you can use the MKVToolnix to set your AAC stream to be the first audio stream. It should then be used for devices that support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchstick 6 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 What client are you using?I'm using the Emby client on the Shield TV Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I'm using the Emby client on the Shield TV Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk This app cannot directly access your file system so path substitution does not come into play. It will direct stream though, which will take very little in the way of resources on the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I'm using the Emby client on the Shield TV Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk You could try kodi with the emby add-on, that should direct play almost everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchstick 6 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Kodi seems to be working well, but how do i get the add-on on to the Shield TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Download the emby repository zip file and install from zip in kodi addon settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twitchstick 6 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I have it all running but I'm having issues with playback. All my movies start and then stop after about 10 seconds. I need to figure out what is causing that. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandiman 14 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hi I have an Asustor 5004T nas should I setup path substitution? Currently the emby app for android crashes from time to time for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hi I have an Asustor 5004T nas should I setup path substitution? Currently the emby app for android crashes from time to time for me Hi there, Please see our library setup wiki, scroll to the bottom for the path substitution section. https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Library%20Setup Let us know if that explains it better. For the android apps it currently won't matter whether you set it up or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandiman 14 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Thanks Luke I shall do some reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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