Chomicz 2 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Is anyone else having issues with MPEG playback using Chromecast? Emby starts transcoding, ffmpeg works fine but Chromecast gets stuck initially loading the file. The remote claims it hasnt started playing but when you click play nothing happens. The file works fine using HTML, Emby App on Android phone and tablet, Emby Theatre and Emby WMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Hi, welcome. Can you please see here for the information that we need to diagnose playback issues? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomicz 2 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 Will do when I'm back at the server (away for weekend) but just wanted to see if anyone else had an issue or if it was local to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Sounds good, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomicz 2 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) Sorry for the long wait but have had a chance to look at the log files and I am having an issue with any MPEG4 encoded video on Chromecast. I've attached all the logs and transcode files since a quick reboot today. FFMPEG starts, the video doesn't start or freezes but the process and file continue to run, even after stopping playback (hopefully demonstrated in PDF). Historically my server logs have thrown up lots of CoverArt, AnimeDB and AutoBox Set errors causing long load times or hanging pages. Never a problem at home, but became frustrating this weekend at friends' homes. I uninstalled all aforementioned plugins and load time has significantly improved. I did update, and then roll back to the bundled version of, FFMPEG in case that fixed but it caused the same issue. I've only two Chromecast users at present affected, works fine on HTML5, WMC, WMC extender, Emby Theatre and Android app users so I've asked Chromecast peeps to use those as a temporary solution. Anything else I could send/do? server-63590636004.txt transcode-98ae4051-9bd9-491e-ab7b-859c7ed3e3b2.txt transcode-2e2ba38d-6174-4ffd-bc39-ecdf5edf3de8.txt transcode-3508226d-8508-4d1c-b054-6584269226c6.txt transcode-8ce9b0f1-b973-4e73-ace0-120e4129dfff.txt transcode-0d542f9d-aff2-4da3-9092-2709e8c47544.txt server-63590635901.txt server-63590635549.txt server-63590572800.txt Hanging FFMPEG.pdf Edited February 9, 2016 by Chomicz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 36881 Posted February 9, 2016 Solution Share Posted February 9, 2016 Can you see if the issue occurs without qsv enabled? thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomicz 2 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Can you see if the issue occurs without qsv enabled? thanks. Set it to auto and all (above and a few others) MPEG4 encoded files play on Chromecast. Cheers for the quick fix. Could you tell me why it works now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36881 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I can't really say what the exact problem is other than some qsv issue in ffmpeg that will hopefully be resolved with future ffmpeg updates. Going forward in the new server beta when you enable qsv it will give you a warning that if you experience any playback issues that it should be turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomicz 2 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Well cheers for the quick answer. Definitely more fuel for the debate at work we've been having for the past few years - Emby support rules! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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