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Read your log again! The stream is detected as interlaced and that's why transcoding with deinterlacing happens.

 

Yeah I realized my mistake now. In his earlier post, #165, is what I was looking at then did a search for yadif which appeared in another log posted. I thought they were the same. 

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Recordings playing back are transcoding and it's causing frequent pixelation/jumps.  Server CPU appears to be ~60%.  Regardless, it shouldn't be transcoding.  I need a solution to this problem...

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1.4.25g jumps up to 1.4.56g after a few updates...

 

Party Crashers
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s)]

 

Jeopardy!
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s)]

 

Both devices are 2017 SHIELD TVs.

 

Running latest beta of Server, Android TV, and HDHomeRun (came out today).

 

 

Profiles...

NONE

Video: MPEG2 Video 1920x1080 29.97fps [V: mpeg2 main, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 96kbps [A: Spanish [spa] (ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s) [visual impaired]

 

HEAVY

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 1920x1080]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

MOBILE

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x540 (16:9) 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 1280x540]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

INTERNET540

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 960x540 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 960x540]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

INTERNET480

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 704x480 (16:9) 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 704x480]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

INTERNET360 (had to start it twice to get video)

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 528x360 (16:9) 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 528x360]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

INTERNET240 (had to start it twice to get video)

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 352x240 (16:9) 29.97fps [V: h264 high L4.0, yuv420p, 352x240]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps [A: English [eng] (ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, 384 kb/s)]

 

I think "heavy" would be my preference.  It substantially reduces file size and network bandwidth load without very little in the way of reducing picture quality.  I think the SHIELDs should be able to handle it so...

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Was working good until today. I send the app logs via account Lynn and attached server logs here.

 

1) Tune to football game (9.1).

2) It plays for a few seconds then does it's usual pause.

3) It never comes out of the pause.

4) After maybe 30 seconds, it goes to black screen with loading wheel (no text/error message).

5) It loads a static image of the game and doesn't come out of it.

 

This issue is not observed via HDHomeRun app nor is it observed via watching the same channel via browser. Appears isolated to Android TV app.

 

The remux logs show exactly when it happened (again, don't know why it is remuxing--SHIELD should be able to handle it as is).

livetvbroke.zip

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This looks like a problem with ffmpeg to me.  Did your server just update?

 

The player is saying the item is "stuck" and there are a ton of errors being spit out by ffmpeg.

 

The item is remuxing because you disabled the direct stream option in the app in order to enable seeking live TV.

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This looks like a problem with ffmpeg to me.  Did your server just update?

I'm just doing whatever Emby Server beta gives me. Last modified: 6/18/2017. Emby Server hasn't updated it in over 4 months yet this behavior is new. Equipment hasn't changed anywhere either. Live TV was working perfect a week ago.

 

The item is remuxing because you disabled the direct stream option in the app in order to enable seeking live TV.

Oh, so normal then? If I enable direct streams it wouldn't let me pause anymore would it? Nice to know why it's always making them at least. :) Edited by FordGT90Concept
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maegibbons

Your emby server is on yesterdays 34.2 build so it has updated.

 

Krs

 

Mark

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It did it again, uploaded logs under user Lynn again. This time, it happened exactly at 1pm. The weird thing is the program didn't change at 1pm (started at noon and will be going for hours yet) so it shouldn't have popped up guide information at all.

 

I also noticed that when it does work, it's like changing playback speed with the picture: sort of like hitching but not quite. May be related.

 

 

If it is FFMPEG again, how do I go about updating it?

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It did it again, uploaded logs under user Lynn again. This time, it happened exactly at 1pm. The weird thing is the program didn't change at 1pm (started at noon and will be going for hours yet) so it shouldn't have popped up guide information at all.

 

Okay, now I'm confused... we weren't talking about the information panel at all so, exactly what, "did it again"...?

 

 

 

1) Tune to football game (9.1).

2) It plays for a few seconds then does it's usual pause.

3) It never comes out of the pause.

4) After maybe 30 seconds, it goes to black screen with loading wheel (no text/error message).

5) It loads a static image of the game and doesn't come out of it.

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It did...

1) Tune to football game (9.1).

2) It plays for a few seconds then does it's usual pause.

3) It played fine for a long time.

4) At 1pm, info bar popped up and then stream stopped.

5) After maybe 30 seconds, it goes to black screen with loading wheel (no text/error message).

6) It loads a static image of the game and doesn't come out of it.

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Okay, this is the same error.  The player is reporting the "playlist is stuck".  I imagine we'll see the same errors in your ffmpeg log if you post it.  You saw the info panel pop up because, once playback failed, we tried to re-start it but that failed as well.

 

I really don't see anything the app can do here. Whatever is going wrong is in the feed coming into it.  So I'm not sure what changed to cause this.

 

If you re-start the channel immediately, does it work?

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The first list (initial report): no. Tried three times, and all three failed.

The second list (just posted): yes.

 

Edit: Live TV seems very fickle right now. Updating to 3.2.35.1...

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Apparently not fixed because it did it again. Backing out and in again, it was able to work for hours.

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Was working good until today. I send the app logs via account Lynn and attached server logs here.

 

1) Tune to football game (9.1).

2) It plays for a few seconds then does it's usual pause.

3) It never comes out of the pause.

4) After maybe 30 seconds, it goes to black screen with loading wheel (no text/error message).

5) It loads a static image of the game and doesn't come out of it.

 

This issue is not observed via HDHomeRun app nor is it observed via watching the same channel via browser. Appears isolated to Android TV app.

 

The remux logs show exactly when it happened (again, don't know why it is remuxing--SHIELD should be able to handle it as is).

This is still happening.
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Live TV which usually gets remuxed I think so no, not direct. It's trick play enabled.

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Sorry for the late reply.

 

Hardware transcoding is enabled for the tuners (because they're EXTENDs). Server itself doesn't use hardware acceleration (does it on CPU).

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Live TV doesn't work more than it does anymore. Try to tune to a channel, it spins, see a pop up about having difficulty with video or audio, it spins, it asks again, repeat. Sent logs from SHIELD via user Lynn. Attached server logs.

broken.zip

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Live TV doesn't work more than it does anymore. Try to tune to a channel, it spins, see a pop up about having difficulty with video or audio, it spins, it asks again, repeat. Sent logs from SHIELD via user Lynn. Attached server logs.

 

Can you please try this with .68.  Be sure to turn on the option to direct stream Live TV.

 

Thanks.

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But enabling direct stream disables trick play, yeah?

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But enabling direct stream disables trick play, yeah?

 

Correct.  I know this may not be what you want ultimately but I'm trying to isolate where the actual problem is so this is for a test.

 

Thanks.

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