Buffering/Stuttering when playing high bit-rate HVEC on FireTV 4K

[toolis 1]

16 hours ago, billxsand said:

I would typically agree with you, but the SEO Gods have chosen this thread and I am here to end it once and for all.

 

 

I am you from 6 months in the future. It's time to get a new NAS. I just finished my build after a week of actual building and a month of data and app migration, and just now I streamed my main problem 4k movie (The Bob's Burgers Movie) with NO ISSUES.

But first I want to get this out of the way -

TV Emby App Settings > Application Settings > Playback > Audio output > Downmix to Stereo

 

The issue is that we are trying to stream NEW CODECS from OLD HARDWARE.

For Black Friday I bought myself a brand new Samsung TV, the S90C. When the issue persisted, I looked at my now 12 year old NAS. After inspecting the ffmpeg and emby logs, I am fairly certain it was trying to convert an audio codec was released AFTER the CPU came out. Not positive on this, but it doesn't matter, because the bottom line is that if you want to stream the latest greatest 4k movies you need better hardware.

You can test this out if you have a recent gaming PC by setting up a test emby server on that and seeing if the issue persists. As was the case for me, the issue went away, so I knew it was time for a new NAS .

I asked around on the various sites and a very helpful user gave me this list. along with this comment.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JdwGh3

I followed his tip on the SAS HBA as I have 7 drives and it was excellent advice.

a note on the case-  the R5 is no longer on sale and the Meshify from Fractal has much better airflow. Personally I am happy with my purchase as I am a bigger fan of the industrial design of the R5 and i have no issues with HDD temps.

Once you get everything switched over and up and running, DON'T FORGET to switch the 'Audio output' setting BACK TO 'AUTO' on your EMBY CLIENT. Ask me how I know!

Also I switched from TrueNAS to Unraid and while the fact that it costs $$ (on TOP of a new build) sucks, i do find the platform much more easy and straight-forward. TrueNAS is constantly changing and upending things, hopefully that is not the case with Unraid. 

 

It is time to pull the band-aid, my friend. Good luck to you.

 

~Mods - Sorry for the long and tangential comment, but as I said, I hope to help people solve this issue once and for all. It is time to let go of our decade old repurposed gaming PC's. The time has come. Thank you and goodnight. !!

No need to apologise. Thank you for your thorough reply.

I was afraid it would be a hardware issue.

Let me ask you sth tho. You said to change audio output back, once I upgrade my hardware. Does this mean that switching to downmix to stereo, will actually solve the problem with my current hardware but I will oly have stereo audio?

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If you can attach the emby server log and ffmpeg logs that include the playback sessions with problems then people can have a better idea of what's going on with your setup.

 

[billxsand 1]

6 hours ago, toolis said:

let me ask you sth tho. You said to change audio output back, once I upgrade my hardware. Does this mean that switching to downmix to stereo, will actually solve the problem with my current hardware but I will oly have stereo audio?

If you are experiencing the lagging/buffering problem, enable "downmix to stereo" in Client settings
Once you upgrade your server, switch that back to "auto" and enjoy your 4k movies without skips

[billxsand 1]

Another quicker cheaper option is buying one of those small NUC computers and using that as the emby server while keeping your old NAS as the file server