axehandler 6 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I recently purchased the lifetime membership cause I believe the program is working awesome and wanted to get behind you guys I was curious when emby will support WMV hardware decode? If I attempt to play Direct stream 8000kbps WMV-HD (vc-1) on my Android TV - it stutters and is un-watchable. if I attempt to play Trans-coded 8000kbps WMV-HD - it plays fine for about 10 mins then the audio off-syncs - reset and works for about 10 mins.. etc. before anyone asks. MP4's work fine and Streaming the WMV to pc/Xbox 360/IOS (actually the emby in Media center is perfect!). just the Android TV has the above issues... so I assume it's an hardware acceleration issue... however I noticed this... ========================== https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/881575/?comment=4683087 SHIELD Android TV Software Upgrade 2.0 Now Available (Released 10/1/15) Expanded codec and container support:-Adds pass-through support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio lossless audio*-Adds MPEG2, VC-1, and WMV9 hardware-acceleration*-Adds M2TS, ASF, and WMV container support for VC-1-Adds WMA audio support (including WMA Pro, and WMA Lossless) *These features are supported by the native Photo & Videos app. Other media players are expected to add support soon. =========================== I have tested that the Native Video app does play the file from USB without issues. So any thoughts on when this functionality will become available? Thank you in advance.. Axehandler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 What happens if you disable VLC (in the Playback settings)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 I've played with every setting I can and I've not found any settings that give me consistent playback when playing WMV's in the Shield Tv. I've read dozens of suggestions on the site and played with both server side and client side before asking. To be honest I even had to shut off Kodi's hardware decode for it to work also, Would only get audio with hardware decode. (Local off usb and network would stutter) This is why I focused on and just asking about the Hardware decode. Axehandler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 We aren't controlling the playback at that level so it depends on what the player itself supports. If VLC is enabled and the item can direct stream, then VLC makes its own determination on how to decode it. If VLC is disabled, then we play through ExoPlayer which is a Google wrapper around the native player on the device and, again, it will make its own determination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 based on that statement - disabling VLC should be the exact same as using the Native Video app. Thank you. More digging.... I wonder when Marshmallow is coming out..... Axe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 is it even trying to direct play at all? if not we might need to look at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 Thanks for replying. As you can see in the pictures, if I disable VLC it auto Trans-codes. The Direct Stream option becomes grayed out and appears off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Can you please post a screenshot of the Media Info for one of those WMV files as it appears in the Emby web client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 If it turns out that VLC cannot directly play that content but the internal player can, that could be a tricky thing to deal with because, right now, we are assuming that VLC can play a superset of what the internal player can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Yea and if It trans-codes for whatever reason the audio slowly off-syncs as I mentioned above. I'll see if I can put together a quick video of it. Media Info From Emby Audio LanguageengCodecWMAPROLayout5.1Channels6 chBitrate375 kbpsSample rate44100 khzDefaultNo Video CodecWMV3ProfileMainLevel-99Resolution1920x1080Aspect ratio16:9AnamorphicNoInterlacedNoFramerate23.97602Bitrate7812 kbpsBit depth8 bitPixel formatyuv420p Containerwmv Edited February 11, 2016 by axehandler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 If it turns out that VLC cannot directly play that content but the internal player can, that could be a tricky thing to deal with because, right now, we are assuming that VLC can play a superset of what the internal player can. The current AndroidProfile is flawed when it comes to VLC. Which is why I'm not using it as is . There are some codec/containers that VLC does't support and those aren't being tested for. Plus the AndroidProfileOptions class isn't handling the Shield TV properly so you lose some native codec support. The Build.MODEL for the Shield is "SHIELD Android TV" not "nvidiashield". In reality AndroidProfileOptions should query Build.MODEL internally rather than passing in a value to ensure the if-else arguments match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37019 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 the vlc profile should just be taken out of the library and moved to your apps. the purpose of the profile in the library is to query the device for reported capabilities. vlc obviously brings it's own decoders so none of that applies. actually if you guys could just go ahead and pull it into your apps that would be great, one of these days i'll just take it out. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 okay here is a small video with VLC enabled - Direct mode. Hardwired to gigabit ethernet. this is direct from my iphone 6+ no editing.... MOV file. wmv with vlc.MOV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 here is the same WMV video (opening to insurgent btw) without VLC enabled. wmv no vlc.MOV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axehandler 6 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) Curious Bit... I loaded a File Locally onto VLC and was still getting stuttering. I looked into the setting and found "enable frame skip" was checked. If I unselected it however....The video plays fine. Since changing that setting in VLC didn't appear to affect Emby... Is there any way to change this setting inside of Emby's VLC? Axe Edited February 23, 2016 by axehandler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14904 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Curious Bit... I loaded a File Locally onto VLC and was still getting stuttering. I looked into the setting and found "enable frame skip" was checked. If I unselected it however....The video plays fine. Since changing that setting in VLC didn't appear to affect Emby... Is there any way to change this setting inside of Emby's VLC? Axe I will investigate. Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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