Direct Play MPEG4 on Emby not possible for Fire TV Stick and Shield

[Seger 116]

@ebr@Luke @all 

Direct Play MPEG4 on Emby not possible for Fire TV Stick and Nvidia Shield.

This function is part of the basic equipment and already existed, when or will there be an update? Cross-loading of standard apps is not manageable because, firstly, there are too many clients and, secondly, not all users can technically implement this.

I've already had a few conversations with you about this, but somehow we can't get a clear statement.

Transcoding for a codec that also offers direct playback is also not the solution, as 70% of users certainly do not have a NAS with the function to transcode.

Thank you for a statement on how, when and if we will soon get this again with the fire tv stciks and the shield.

Thanks 
Seger

[Luke 39662]

HI, yes ultimately the TV app will catch up. Thanks.

[Seger 116]

OK, great that she will be, very good statement! 

Can you already say approximately when? It would help a lot of users and I can also promise it to my users.

best regards
seger
 

[Luke 39662]

I don't have an ETA, sorry.

[ebr 15580]

Hi. Are you talking about in an AVI container?

[Seger 116]

yes that's what I mean, did you mean Luke:

E.g. the following file (just an example):

 

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Dateigröße                               : 224 MiB
Dauer                                    : 24 min 53s
Gesamte Bitrate                          : 1 258 kb/s
verwendete Encoder-Bibliothek            : VirtualDub build 18160/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format-Einstellungen                     : BVOP1
Format-Einstellungen für BVOP            : 1
Format-Einstellungen für Qpel            : Nein
Format-Einstellungen für GMC             :  Keine warppoints
Format-Einstellungen für Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Muxing-Modus                             : Packed bitstream
Codec-ID                                 : DX50
Codec-ID/Hinweis                         : DivX 5
Dauer                                    : 24 min 53s
Bitrate                                  : 1 152 kb/s
Breite                                   : 640 Pixel
Höhe                                     : 480 Pixel
Bildseitenverhältnis                     : 4:3
Bildwiederholungsrate                    : 25,000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scantyp                                  : progressiv
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.150
Stream-Größe                             : 205 MiB (92%)
verwendete Encoder-Bibliothek            : DivX 5.2.1 Beta (UTC 2004-09-08)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format-Version                           : Version 1
Format-Profil                            : Layer 3
Format-Einstellungen                     : Joint stereo / MS Stereo
Codec-ID                                 : 55
Codec-ID/Hinweis                         : MP3
Dauer                                    : 24 min 53s
Bitraten-Modus                           : konstant
Bitrate                                  : 96,0 kb/s
Kanäle                                   : 2 Kanäle
Samplingrate                             : 32,0 kHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Video Verzögerung                        : 20 ms
Stream-Größe                             : 17,1 MiB (8%)
Ausrichtung                              : Aufteilung über Interleaves
Interleave, Dauer                        : 40  ms (1,00 Video-Frame)
Interleave, Vorlaufsdauer                : 500  ms

 

[Happy2Play 9357]

Pretty sure it will come back to the "DX50 codec/DivX 5".

[FizzWhistle 1]

Hello,

I had a little bit of trouble understanding the OPs question... But I had also noticed that my Fire Stick has trouble playing files that were encoded with the DX50. I am not a premium member, so I don't think there is any transcoding going on. They will play in an unwatchable way. It mostly looks like the wrong size was chosen so everything is slanted. Like it was using what VLC identifies as "Buffer Dimensions" instead of "Video resolution."

I can provide examples if it helps. The files play fine on every other device I've tested, so I am not in a rush.

What I had been trying to figure out was,  is this was an issue with the Fire Stick or the Emby app for the Fire Stick?  And... Is there a solution/work around available, am I just missing something, or do I just need to be patient?

[ebr 15580]

Hi.  Can you try sideloading our standard android app on the same device and see how that compares?

https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html

Thanks.