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Hi there, I've set up my old PC as a standalone server running Emby, along with Windows AD, DHCP and DNS Services. Specs are an i5-7400, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, 120GB SATA boot drive, and a Storage Space with 2x4TB HDDs and a 500GB NVMe SSD for cache. I've mostly been using the server for streaming my music collection (which I'm still building on!) However, I've been trying streaming films/TV Shows from my server, and I've started to have a few problems. The issues I've been having mainly relate to my LG Smart TV (43UN8100), but also my Xbox One S. When I stream video on the Smart TV, it usually stutters and results in me not being able to comfortably watch the video. This seems to happen regardless of the resolution of the video/whether I'm direct-playing or transcoding. When I'm playing the videos on the Xbox, they start off playing fine, but then the Xbox will start dropping frames like a madman while still playing the audio. This has been tested using the Emby Theater apps and the native DLNA apps on both the Xbox and the LG TV. This perplexes me as the videos play fine on my Windows 11 PC, my Samsung Tab S7+, and also on my Note20 Ultra (I've even tested this over 5G and it plays fine). With regards to my network setup, the LG TV, Windows 11 PC and the Xbox are connected via Ethernet. My Note20 and Tab S7 are both on Wi-Fi or 5G. It seems like the issue could be device-related, but I'm unable to work out where the issue would lie. I've also taken a look at my Task Manager on the server while streaming, and the server doesn't seem to be overloaded or stressed at all. I've noticed that the network speed on the NIC fluctuates while streaming, but I'd assume this is normal? The videos themselves are encoded as H.264 with the highest bitrate being 44Mbps. Some of the videos are 1080p/30fps, others are 4K/24fps. I genuinely can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here, so I'm hoping someone can set me on the right path. Thank you! embyserver.txt

What I have done so far, I have a domain name purchased from namecheap i'll call it <mydomain> I used namecheap's DDNS on my emby server which creates an A record on the domain. for whatever reason, I had to use www.<mydomain>.com I don't know why but i had to add the www's to get it to work, I had also tried @<mydomain>.com but it would never update I have let this run for a week so everything should be updated and ready to go On my router I forwarded ports 80 and 443 to the emby server with my particular router I can't figure out a way to permit it through the firewall but my test has the firewall turned off so I dont think it is causing the issue. Emby's setting local http 8096 https 8920 public http 80 https 443 allow remote is checked caddy v2 I downloaded the zip, unzipped it on the root directory. Created the extension-less "caddyfile" its contents are, { email <mygmail>@gmail.com } www.<mydomain>.com { reverse_proxy http://192.168.0.18:80 } I know I can use localhost instead of the IP, this should work though because I know it's internal IP and I have it set to not change as I use it to connect using RDP. Running everything I use command prompt and navigate to the Caddy directory with router firewall on and the server's firewall off, I run # caddy run C:\Caddy>caddy run 2020/06/21 14:46:17.402 [34mINFO[0m using adjacent Caddyfile 2020/06/21 14:46:17.413 [34mINFO[0m admin admin endpoint started {"address": "localhost:2019", "enforce_origin": false, "origins": ["localhost:2019"]} 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO][cache:0xc0005ff7c0] Started certificate maintenance routine 2020/06/21 14:46:17.415 [34mINFO[0m http server is listening only on the HTTPS port but has no TLS connection policies; adding one to enable TLS {"server_name": "srv0", "https_port": 443} 2020/06/21 14:46:17.415 [34mINFO[0m http enabling automatic HTTP->HTTPS redirects {"server_name": "srv0"} 2020/06/21 14:46:17.418 [34mINFO[0m tls cleaned up storage units 2020/06/21 14:46:17.418 [34mINFO[0m http enabling automatic TLS certificate management {"domains": ["www.<mydomain>.com"]} 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain certificate; acquiring lock... 2020/06/21 14:46:17.425 [34mINFO[0m autosaved config {"file": "C:\\Users\\<myuser>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Caddy\\autosave.json"} 2020/06/21 14:46:17.428 [34mINFO[0m serving initial configuration 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: Lock acquired; proceeding... 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Waiting on rate limiter... 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Done waiting 2020/06/21 08:46:17 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Obtaining bundled SAN certificate given a CSR 2020/06/21 08:46:18 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] AuthURL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387022605 2020/06/21 08:46:18 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Could not find solver for: tls-alpn-01 2020/06/21 08:46:18 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: use http-01 solver 2020/06/21 08:46:18 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Trying to solve HTTP-01 2020/06/21 08:46:25 [INFO] Deactivating auth: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387022605 2020/06/21 08:46:25 [INFO] Unable to deactivate the authorization: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387022605 2020/06/21 08:46:25 [ERROR] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Fetching http://www.<mydomain>.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/P-jvWvwSBjkK_9PQepBe5puAo_TLpsdonnZVunocu-I: Connection reset by peer, url: (challenge=http-01 remaining=[tls-alpn-01]) 2020/06/21 08:46:27 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Obtaining bundled SAN certificate given a CSR 2020/06/21 08:46:27 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] AuthURL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387024673 2020/06/21 08:46:27 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: use tls-alpn-01 solver 2020/06/21 08:46:27 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Trying to solve TLS-ALPN-01 2020/06/21 08:46:28 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:61875: EOF 2020/06/21 08:46:28 [INFO] Deactivating auth: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387024673 2020/06/21 08:46:28 [INFO] Unable to deactivate the authorization: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387024673 2020/06/21 08:46:28 [ERROR] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Connection refused, url: (challenge=tls-alpn-01 remaining=[]) 2020/06/21 08:46:30 [ERROR] attempt 1: [www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Connection refused, url: - retrying in 1m0s (13.0492981s/720h0m0s elapsed)... 2020/06/21 14:46:34.960 [34mINFO[0m shutting down {"signal": "SIGINT"} 2020/06/21 08:46:34 [INFO][cache:0xc0005ff7c0] Stopped certificate maintenance routine 2020/06/21 08:46:34 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: Releasing lock 2020/06/21 14:46:34.963 [34mINFO[0m shutdown done {"signal": "SIGINT"} with both router and caddy server's firewalls off I run caddy and it does this, C:\Caddy>caddy run 2020/06/21 14:47:55.788 [34mINFO[0m using adjacent Caddyfile 2020/06/21 14:47:55.794 [34mINFO[0m admin admin endpoint started {"address": "localhost:2019", "enforce_origin": false, "origins": ["localhost:2019"]} 2020/06/21 14:47:55.795 [34mINFO[0m http server is listening only on the HTTPS port but has no TLS connection policies; adding one to enable TLS {"server_name": "srv0", "https_port": 443} 2020/06/21 14:47:55.795 [34mINFO[0m http enabling automatic HTTP->HTTPS redirects {"server_name": "srv0"} 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO][cache:0xc0002e3b80] Started certificate maintenance routine 2020/06/21 14:47:55.796 [34mINFO[0m http enabling automatic TLS certificate management {"domains": ["www.<mydomain>.com"]} 2020/06/21 14:47:55.797 [34mINFO[0m tls cleaned up storage units 2020/06/21 14:47:55.798 [34mINFO[0m autosaved config {"file": "C:\\Users\\<myuser>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Caddy\\autosave.json"} 2020/06/21 14:47:55.799 [34mINFO[0m serving initial configuration 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain certificate; acquiring lock... 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: Lock acquired; proceeding... 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Waiting on rate limiter... 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Done waiting 2020/06/21 08:47:55 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Obtaining bundled SAN certificate given a CSR 2020/06/21 08:47:56 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] AuthURL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387042878 2020/06/21 08:47:56 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Could not find solver for: tls-alpn-01 2020/06/21 08:47:56 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: use http-01 solver 2020/06/21 08:47:56 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Trying to solve HTTP-01 2020/06/21 08:48:03 [INFO] Deactivating auth: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387042878 2020/06/21 08:48:03 [INFO] Unable to deactivate the authorization: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387042878 2020/06/21 08:48:03 [ERROR] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Fetching http://www.<mydomain>.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/fZqo0DmEmVjo9sElqDlmfJv6r_y50shAJ87QeOgb_rE: Connection reset by peer, url: (challenge=http-01 remaining=[tls-alpn-01]) 2020/06/21 08:48:05 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Obtaining bundled SAN certificate given a CSR 2020/06/21 08:48:06 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] AuthURL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387045568 2020/06/21 08:48:06 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: use tls-alpn-01 solver 2020/06/21 08:48:06 [INFO] [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Trying to solve TLS-ALPN-01 2020/06/21 08:48:06 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:62306: EOF 2020/06/21 08:48:11 [INFO] Deactivating auth: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387045568 2020/06/21 08:48:11 [INFO] Unable to deactivate the authorization: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/authz-v3/5387045568 2020/06/21 08:48:11 [ERROR] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Connection refused, url: (challenge=tls-alpn-01 remaining=[]) 2020/06/21 08:48:13 [ERROR] attempt 1: [www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: Error -> One or more domains had a problem: [www.<mydomain>.com] acme: error: 400 :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:connection :: Connection refused, url: - retrying in 1m0s (17.8656781s/720h0m0s elapsed)... 2020/06/21 14:48:24.865 [34mINFO[0m shutting down {"signal": "SIGINT"} 2020/06/21 08:48:24 [INFO][cache:0xc0002e3b80] Stopped certificate maintenance routine 2020/06/21 08:48:24 [INFO][www.<mydomain>.com] Obtain: Releasing lock 2020/06/21 14:48:24.867 [34mINFO[0m shutdown done {"signal": "SIGINT"} The emby server is running windows server 2019 like a lot of server's it doesn't have any additional antivirus or firewall beyond windows defender. This is what I am referring to when I say in the test that the firewall is turned off. Both Private and Public network settings are set to 'Turn off Windows Defender Firewall'. Any help with why this isn't working would be appreciated. If I left out anything that is important please let me know. I am unfamiliar with all of this so if I didn't mention it I almost certainly didn't do it.

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