Chromecast stops playing

[serpi 72]

Hi,

 

my wife is often using the Android App and streaming to Chromecast (first generation).

 

This used to work without problems, but in the last time, she says, the playback now stops from time to time and she has to restart the video.

 

I couldn't find much about problems in the log file, this is (I think) what was written, when playback stopped:

2018-04-06 20:44:58.262 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 500 to 192.168.178.128. Time: 681611ms. http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Videos/3f04343dd30b344f472daeb995b4a9f5/stream.mkv?Static=true&mediaSourceId=3f04343dd30b344f472daeb995b4a9f5&deviceId=U2xlZXBDaHJvbWU1&Tag=d905851f64adafe0f90e619f2a446634 
2018-04-06 20:44:58.307 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.58 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.29.104827
2018-04-06 20:44:58.309 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Chromecast 2.1.0 playing Down By Law. Stopped at 678948 ms
2018-04-06 20:44:58.310 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.178.128. Time: 4ms. http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Stopped 

The video wasn't transcoded but directly played.

For me, it seems, http 500 is an error?

 

She didn't touch her phone when playback stopped, so it's sure, she didn't accidentially stop the playback.

 

In this case, playback stopped again only a few seconds after restarting:

2018-04-06 20:46:42.176 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 500 to 192.168.178.128. Time: 15620ms (slow). http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Videos/3f04343dd30b344f472daeb995b4a9f5/stream.mkv?Static=true&mediaSourceId=3f04343dd30b344f472daeb995b4a9f5&deviceId=U2xlZXBDaHJvbWU1&Tag=d905851f64adafe0f90e619f2a446634 
2018-04-06 20:46:42.204 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.58 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.29.104827
2018-04-06 20:46:42.206 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Chromecast 2.1.0 playing Down By Law. Stopped at 690946 ms
2018-04-06 20:46:42.207 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.178.128. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.178.25:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Stopped 

And again, there's a http response 500 to Chromecast.

 

Is this a known problem or anything I can do about it?

 

Thanks & Ciao, Alfred

 

[Luke 37112]

If it is direct playing then Emby is not heavily involved. This sounds network related to me.

 

You may want to try setting the Chromecast quality setting in the casting app to a low value. This will result in more transcoding but will reduce the size of the data that has to flow through the network. I would see if this helps. Thanks.