Bitrate Limit Not Working.

June 28, 2016

Hello, I would like to set a Bitrate limit to my clients, but I can't seem to make it work! I'm testing in Kodi with the emby addon, and I set on my server a limit of 2Mb/s. When I play a movie in kodi (outside my network, so streaming, not direct playing) I press the leter "o" to get the movie information! I see that it still is a 1080p movie and that goes beyond the 2Mb/s bitrate. On the server dashboard I get the information "Direct Plying". Only when in kodi I set a lower "Video Quality" I get Transcoding in the dashboard and the correct bitrate on the video info in kodi. I would like to control this, not the clients.

I would like to limit the bit rate to all clients, and if possible the video size (down to 720p).

Is this possible?

Thank You

Edited June 28, 2016 by soloam

June 28, 2016

I think the kodi addon hasn't implemented the api for this. I'll sync with them on that. Thanks.

June 30, 2016

@@Luke But should't the server setting be independent from the client? I understood that if I set 2Mb/s in the server, no mater what settings the client has, it will allays only receive that bitrate. Did I get that wrong?

thank you

June 30, 2016

The kodi addon is using an api that was created before this setting was added, so it's not that simple. We are having discussions on getting it updated though.

June 30, 2016

Thank you @@Luke great work and looking forward to that!

Best Regards

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September 25, 2016

Whats the status on this? I noticed on my server (3.1.164) that Kodi clients still seem to ignore the max streaming bitrate setting...

September 25, 2016

Playback is being worked on in Kodi, but it's a big modification so it will take some time before it's ready for testing.

Edited September 25, 2016 by Angelblue05

September 26, 2016

Playback is being worked on in Kodi, but it's a big modification so it will take some time before it's ready for testing.

Thanks. I guess there is no workaround available to limit it? I have a few remote clients using Emby for Kodi and them using "direct playing" is very taxing on my upload as you can imagine

September 26, 2016

If they are playing from HTTP, you can ask them to change the video quality and reduce it on clients side for now.

Note that, if your users are not able to directly playback because the bitrate is too low, the content will transcode and that will use a lot more cpu on your server.

September 26, 2016

If they are playing from HTTP, you can ask them to change the video quality and reduce it on clients side for now.

Note that, if your users are not able to directly playback because the bitrate is too low, the content will transcode and that will use a lot more cpu on your server.

I actually want them to transcode to get the bitrate down. They are using the default method in the addon for playback and have the bitrate set to 10mbit. Sadly, this still causes direct playback and no transcoding...

I have more transcoding power than I have bandwidth, so unlike all the other threads asking to force direct play, I want to force them to transcode (Using the kodi addon)

September 26, 2016

10 Mbps.... so reduce it to 2 Mbps or less instead....

September 27, 2016

I think that he haves the same problem that I have! Users using emby on kodi that don't reduce the bitrate and consume the entire bandwidth! I have it set in the server to limit to 2mbit, but on kodi that is ignored!

We will wait for a solution! Meanwhile I am blocking all the users that are using kodi and not respecting the mbit that I set!

Thank you

September 27, 2016

Well it's going to take some time to update our playback method. Seems simple enough, reduce the bitrate client side and it will achieve what you want. Under the addon settings > playback > set video quality to 2 Mpbs or less. It's really not difficult.

Edited September 27, 2016 by Angelblue05

September 27, 2016

10 Mbps.... so reduce it to 2 Mbps or less instead....

Well it's going to take some time to update our playback method. Seems simple enough, reduce the bitrate client side and it will achieve what you want. Under the addon settings > playback > set video quality to 2 Mpbs or less. It's really not difficult.

Thats just it... I can reduce it as much as I'd like.. (Currently set it to 1Mbit) it will still do Direct Playback according to the web interface and no transcoding is taking place. If it was as easy as simply changing the client bitrate, I could live with that until the server side bitrate limitation was implemented/fixed. But this just has the clients ignoring everything bitrate related and just play back the original file

September 27, 2016

To use the reduced bitrate the kodi client must be set to http, not smb!

Edited September 27, 2016 by soloam

September 27, 2016

If they are playing from HTTP, you can ask them to change the video quality and reduce it on clients side for now.

Note that, if your users are not able to directly playback because the bitrate is too low, the content will transcode and that will use a lot more cpu on your server.

September 27, 2016

To use the reduced bitrate the kodi client must be set to http, not smb!

If they are playing from HTTP, you can ask them to change the video quality and reduce it on clients side for now.

Note that, if your users are not able to directly playback because the bitrate is too low, the content will transcode and that will use a lot more cpu on your server.

The client is set to HTTP (which is the default)....

I'll find another external pc and do a new install of kodi + the addon and see if I have a similiar effect...

September 27, 2016

I have tested and transcode works fine as long as you use addon playback and have play from http enabled. Provide your kodi log and we'll be able to see why it's not working for you.

September 27, 2016

This is going to take me longer than I thought....
The issue seems to run a lot deeper. It's not just the Kodi addon, It seems to affect every transcode that is supposed to happen....

A little info about what I found out so far:

I started by connecting to a remote pc which hasn't been a client yet. Installed Kodi (latest, Krypton 17 B2) and installed the Emby for Kodi plugin (Latest beta => 2.2.37).

Next I setup the addon and made sure the settings for bitrate and HTTP were correct

I then tested to see if it was working:

So, I figured it wasn't working and got ready to start gathering the debug logs to post up, when I noticed the following in the logs:

23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Play called.
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> Can't direct play, play from HTTP enabled.
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> The add-on settings bitrate is: 2000000, the video bitrate required is: 1093856
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> File is direct streaming.
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist start position: 0
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist plugin position: 0
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist size: 1
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Resetting properties playback flag.
23:17:37 T:1336  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Play as a regular item.
23:17:37 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: https://<MY EMBY SERVER>/emby/Videos/8ec3d192f3a62db9bdb4baee16c2785c/stream?static=true
23:17:37 T:4224 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
23:17:37 T:4224   ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 104 for 1.
23:17:37 T:4224   ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 105 for 1.
23:17:37 T:3768  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
23:17:37 T:3616  NOTICE: EMBY.player -> DEBUG:: reportPlayback Called
23:17:37 T:3768  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 13
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-4 part 2
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Creating video thread
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86017
23:17:39 T:3768  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
23:17:39 T:684  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
23:17:39 T:4644  NOTICE: running thread: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process()
23:17:39 T:684  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-4 part 2
23:17:39 T:4644  NOTICE: Creating audio stream (codec id: 86017, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through)
23:17:39 T:3616  NOTICE: EMBY.kodimonitor -> Method: Player.OnPlay Data: {"item":{"id":5021,"type":"episode"},"player":{"playerid":1,"speed":1}}
23:17:39 T:3616  NOTICE: EMBY.player -> ONPLAYBACK_STARTED: https://<MY EMBY SERVER>/emby/Videos/8ec3d192f3a62db9bdb4baee16c2785c/stream?static=true itemid: 8ec3d192f3a62db9bdb4baee16c2785c

Doh.... I tested a file with an apparent average bitrate less than 2mbit... (Still weird that it says direct streaming, while it infact is direct playing)

No worries... let me just try a high bitrate movie... then gather the logs...

23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Play called.
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> Can't direct play, play from HTTP enabled.
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> The add-on settings bitrate is: 2000000, the video bitrate required is: 10552115
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> The network speed is insufficient to direct stream file.
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> File is transcoding.
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist start position: 0
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist plugin position: 0
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist size: 1
23:10:09 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Resetting properties playback flag.
23:10:14 T:2636  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Play as a regular item.
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: https://<my emby server>/emby/Videos/52e529cf43e4bed7a9fc6dd572ab2558/master.m3u8?MediaSourceId=52e529cf43e4bed7a9fc6dd572ab2558&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=ac3&MaxAudioChannels=6&deviceId=903D269DCA404AEAA901E5730FA451D7&VideoBitrate=2000000&AudioStreamIndex=1&AudioBitrate=384000
23:10:14 T:4224 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
23:10:14 T:4224   ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 104 for 1.
23:10:14 T:4224   ERROR: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 105 for 1.
23:10:14 T:684  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
23:10:14 T:684  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
23:10:14 T:684   ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
23:10:14 T:684  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
23:10:14 T:4224   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.emby.movies/?dbid=47&mode=play&id=52e529cf43e4bed7a9fc6dd572ab2558&filename=2+Fast+2+Furious.mkv]
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
23:10:14 T:4224  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
23:10:14 T:3616  NOTICE: EMBY.player -> DEBUG:: ONPLAYBACK_STOPPED
23:10:14 T:3616  NOTICE: EMBY.player -> Clear playlist properties.

The error at first seemed to me to be something related to the transcode not being supported... But when I checked the server to find the transcode log, it became apparent there wasn't any to be found. Somehow the transcode wasn't kicking off. Surely, this had to be related to the Emby for Kodi plugin, so I installed the Emby Theather app on the same machine, only to find that when I limited the bitrate (when transcoding should kick in) I didn't get it to playback anything. Also, again, no transcoding logs....

At this point I figured the machine must have some issue, so I took over one of my (problem) users' PC and tried the same thing. Same problems again.

Now I'm starting to think my machine's transcoding is broken... I opened the Webbrowser and tested from there.... And everything works perfectly! Transcoding and all... transcoding logs... the whole shebang...

So, at this point I'm thinking it has to be something server related (I'm running the latest beta 3.1.167.0). I'll have to do some more digging...

As you stated before, I had ofcourse limited the bitrates on the client, so I just figured something had gone wonky in the addon beta's... You figured I was some newb that didn't know how to limit the bitrate properly.

As always, the proof is in the numbers...

Next steps are figuring out if I can do something to fix it, and otherwise rollback to an older server version to see if that resolves it... Stay tuned

Edited September 27, 2016 by intellium

September 28, 2016

The bitrate limit shouldn't result in playback not working in Emby Theater, but rather just transcoding happening. The only exception would be if transcoding access has been denied to that user.

September 28, 2016

Currently, the only way I get the server to transcode something, is by using the WebUI. This reliably starts FFMPEG to transcode the stream. Anything else just results in a playback failure and no transcoding even attempted on the server. This is with the Kodi addon and Emby Theater as far as I've been able to test.

Im running all these under my own user (which has all rights / access).

The server is running 3.1.168.0 beta (docker container)

Client is Windows 10, Kodi 16.1 / 17.2 / ET 2.5.22

I tried this under Kodi 17.2 with the latest Emby (beta) addon:

The Kodi Log for playback:

19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.downloadutils -> DEBUG:: ====== 200 Success ======
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19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.artwork -> image cache thread count: 25
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Play called.
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> Can't direct play, play from HTTP enabled.
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> The add-on settings bitrate is: 2000000, the video bitrate required is: 6961753
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> The network speed is insufficient to direct stream file.
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playutils -> File is transcoding.
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist start position: 0
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist plugin position: 0
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Playlist size: 1
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Setting up properties in playlist.
19:55:18 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> DEBUG:: Adding dummy file to playlist.
19:55:19 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playlist -> DEBUG:: {u'jsonrpc': u'2.0', u'id': 1, u'result': u'OK'}
19:55:19 T:86928  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
19:55:19 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.downloadutils -> DEBUG:: ===== ENTER downloadUrl =====
19:55:19 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.downloadutils -> DEBUG:: {'headers': {'Accept-Charset': 'UTF-8,*', 'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept-encoding': 'gzip', 'Authorization': 'MediaBrowser UserId="0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74", Client="Kodi", Device="Kodi (PC-<me>)", DeviceId="662C7BDFC7C446B58ED05E1CACECCC4F", Version="2.2.37"', 'X-MediaBrowser-Token': '2b60098113864220b16cbbd31980d352'}, 'json': None, 'params': None, 'timeout': 30, 'url': 'https://<my emby server>/emby/Users/0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74/Items/fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114/Intros?format=json', 'verify': False}
19:55:19 T:88492  NOTICE: EMBY.kodimonitor -> Method: Playlist.OnRemove Data: {"playlistid":1,"position":1}
19:55:23 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.downloadutils -> DEBUG:: ====== 200 Success ======
19:55:23 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.downloadutils -> DEBUG:: Response: {u'Items': [], u'TotalRecordCount': 0}
19:55:23 T:86928  NOTICE: EMBY.playbackutils -> Processed as a playlist. First item is skipped.
19:55:23 T:88704   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.emby.movies/?dbid=49&mode=play&id=fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114&filename=The+5th+Wave.mkv]

And here is the Emby Server log (which seems very uninformative):

2016-09-28 19:55:20.2683 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://<my emby server>/emby/Users/0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74/Items/fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114?format=json. UserAgent: python-requests/2.9.1
2016-09-28 19:55:20.2982 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 10.20.5.135. Time: 30ms. http://<my emby server>/emby/Users/0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74/Items/fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114?format=json
2016-09-28 19:55:22.1471 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://10.20.70.5:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 5.1; QM163E Build/LMY47D)
2016-09-28 19:55:22.1642 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 10.20.5.108. Time: 17ms. http://10.20.70.5:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2016-09-28 19:55:24.8750 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://<my emby server>/emby/Users/0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74/Items/fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114/Intros?format=json. UserAgent: python-requests/2.9.1
2016-09-28 19:55:24.8874 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 10.20.5.135. Time: 13ms. http://<my emby server>/emby/Users/0e88ea49810d485ab6d24dcc2a56eb74/Items/fdfe64e68daaf9f2497c8d4bf53fd114/Intros?format=json

I have checked all settings, toyed with everything, but can't seem to get it to work.

To top it off, I just launched ET and set the bitrate limit to 720p 2Mbit and everything plays... But, the WebUI says it's transcoding, there is no FFMPEG process, nor any transcoding logs and the ET logs indicate it's using the direct path to the media file :S

This just keeps on getting weirder and weirder. Could this somehow be related to the removal of the old path substitution in the latest Emby server ?

I might just wipe everything and start anew, this is driving me bonkers....

September 28, 2016

Renamed the config folder and started a new container. Added my smalles library folder, configured Emby and tried again...

Everything works... Transcoding is happening as it should...

Now to figure out where in the config everything got botched up in the recent upgrades...

September 28, 2016

And to make it just that much more interesting; After verifying a clean config folder works, I went back and renamed the old config folder back to production so I could start testing some stuff and behold... everything suddenly started working... I'm at a loss at what happened here and how this is even possible...

Will keep monitoring for issues....

September 28, 2016

Thanks for reporting back.

September 28, 2016

Thanks for reporting back.

Np

Now I can get back to figuring out a bunch of other issues I had... Or... they might just have disappeared as well :rolleyes:

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