avitali 0 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Hi, I've been using Emby for a few weeks now. I've noticed that, pretty often, when users stream, the server transcodes the file, even though it would be compatible with the client. The reason given is always something along the lines of 'media bitrate exceeds limit'. Can somebody of you explain to me why this happens? It seems to me that most files should just direct play. I've used Jellyfin, where everything direct plays (which can be both good and bad...) and neither I, nor my users have ever had issues direct playing (caused by bitrate limitations). It just seems weird Emby does this, and I cannot understand why... I've attached the logs of two instances where this occurred as txt-files. Emby-logs-1.txtEmby-logs-2.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8281 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 The playback set to "Auto" being conservative and using the hardcoded remote fallback value of 3Mbps. If you set the Playback quality to anything besides "Auto" it works, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avitali 0 Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 For my own user, under Playback, I have set 1080p - 60mbps. Since I've set it that way, I don't have the issue anymore. But still, before setting it, the quality was lowered at times, and at times not. I don't really understand why this happens... Is there any way to set settings server-side so that emby only transcodes when necessarily needed? Most of my media is 8-10 mbps, and 3 mbps just seems unnecessarily low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8281 Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Emby already only transcodes, when necessary, but from a REMOTE standpoint it can be conservative and fallback to hard coded value for any number of reasons when set to Auto. Note playback quality is a per device setting and we would need to see a specific example if you have value set at 1080p - 60Mbps and you are getting a low value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avitali 0 Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 Well, it's more for remote users I asked. Since I've set the quality at 1080p - 60 mbps it works fine for me. Is there any way to mitigate the issue of the stream transcoding? What are reasons why this would happen? I just wondered why it would default to 3mbps, even when through a remote connection, as this seemed unnecessary to me - especially as my goal is to provide a high quality stream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 The default for auto on a remote connection will generally be on the conservative side. If you raise the quality setting, that may help avoid transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avitali 0 Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 Can I change the default for auto? As in, can I set global quality settings which are higher than the default is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Hi, no, but we are looking into improving it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avitali 0 Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 I'd love to see that. As I connect through cloudflare (when I'm home as well, almost never use the local address), pretty much all my connections are 'remote' connections. The limit just seems arbitrary - is it possible to just abandon it entirely? The only limit which would make sense imo is if bandwidth isn't high enough... which server or client could detect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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