Kramerika 16 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Up until this week, my OTA live TV stations on my Shield TV via HD Homerun boxes were direct playing with the internal player (Direct/I) with 5.1 dolby surround. As of last night, they are now transcoding (Trans/I) although still maintaining the 5.1 sound. I can switch to VLC which direct plays, but it is not nearly as smooth. I was wondering what changed, and if there were any way to get it back to direct playing as I don't like it using my CPU on my server if not needed. I can direct play with the Silicondust app just fine. I sent logs just now as MediaServer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 What version of the Android TV app do you have installed and what version of Emby server? You have the option enabled for Direct Play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37106 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 @@Kramerika can you please attach the emby server and ffmpeg log? You can learn how to do that here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/739-how-to-report-a-problem/ Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14927 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 More than likely, the channels are interlaced (or, at least we think they are) and we are now running those through the server to de-interlace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramerika 16 Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 (edited) What version of the Android TV app do you have installed and what version of Emby server? You have the option enabled for Direct Play? The latest Android TV beta, 1.4.18g, and the latest stable server, 3.2.19.0. I have had the direct play option enabled since starting to use Emby a few years ago. It was direct playing live TV as of last week, but it started transcoding this week. I attached the logs. What's interesting is that I have a Fire TV too, and it direct plays live TV fine, but that is the stable version of the app which is probably older. ffmpeg-directstream-86d92192-da42-463a-b98b-a1b1bdedaf75.txt server-63632649600.txt Edited June 11, 2017 by Kramerika Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37106 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 So you'd rather have interlacing instead of transcoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14927 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Your example actually isn't transcoding. It is direct streaming it which will allow you to pause, rewind, ff and puts very little load on your server. What is your Live TV source? Is it local to the machine that is playing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramerika 16 Posted June 13, 2017 Author Share Posted June 13, 2017 No, it's from an HDHomerun box on my network coming from an OTA antenna. I guess I never noticed the interlacing. As long as the picture is always smooth and the server is not being used, I honestly don't care either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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