Dan833 7 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 hi, why is the DirectPlay limit so low ? i was playing a movie outside my network on wifi and it kept stopping every now and then, when i got home i checked the logs and found this - Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 1255244, max bitrate: 1000000 so any video encoded with a bitrate over 1mbps or 1000 kb/s needs transcoding in Emby ? DS File mobile app for Synology plays this fine with no transcoding. My upload is 25mbps. The Suicide Squad (2021).mp4.txt embyserver.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3308 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) It has been observed in numerous topics that "Auto" Playback setting in client apps tends to be on (for today's standards: somewhat very) conservative side. Change that setting to some higher fixed numerical value and you should have no issues, assuming your server internet connection upload/client app download can handle it. Edited February 24, 2022 by GrimReaper Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan833 7 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 ah ok thanks, i will change that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8296 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 What client? Didn't know there was a client that had a default bitrate that low. Thought they were all 1.5Mbps or 3.0Mbps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3308 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, Happy2Play said: What client? Didn't know there was a client that had a default bitrate that low. Thought they were all 1.5Mbps or 3.0Mbps. Good catch, alternatively some bitrate limit may be in force. @Dan833 do you have some bitrate limit set for 1Mbps, either Global (Settings>Network tab>"Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps)" field) or per-user (Settings>Users tab>Edit user>"Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps)" field)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 @Dan833 Did you get a chance to look/change it yet? Like @Happy2Play I would like to know what the setting was before you changed it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan833 7 Posted March 2, 2022 Author Share Posted March 2, 2022 (edited) @cayars and @GrimReaper on the server side i have not touched any of the settings regarding bandwidth. I don't use transcode either because my movies and tv are not high bitrate anyway. What i have done, is in Emby for Android app in the settings>plackback>internet quality i changed it from the default setting which was Auto to 1080p - 20Mbps. Now it does plays with no hanging Edited March 2, 2022 by Dan833 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3308 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 47 minutes ago, Dan833 said: What i have done, is in Emby for Android app in the settings>plackback>internet quality i changed it from the default setting which was Auto to 1080p - 20Mbps. Now it does plays with no hanging Yeah, that was the first thought I've had upon reading your description - glad you got it sorted out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdhardi 19 Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 On 3/2/2022 at 11:32 AM, Dan833 said: @cayars and @GrimReaper on the server side i have not touched any of the settings regarding bandwidth. I don't use transcode either because my movies and tv are not high bitrate anyway. What i have done, is in Emby for Android app in the settings>plackback>internet quality i changed it from the default setting which was Auto to 1080p - 20Mbps. Now it does plays with no hanging @Dan833Thanks for posting the exact steps on how you solved this! Just ran into this issue yesterday and I had no clue what was going on, so I searched the forums and your post was the second one I found. Guess my forum searching skills are getting better because it usually takes me a while to find answers lol. You saved me a lot of time. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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