Trekster 10 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Hi Guys, I'm using the native LIVE TV option on emby, trying to stream a channel in the webclient results in transcoding. See attached. The same channel does not transcode on Plex which i'm also using as a backup option, the same browser which is the latest chrome. Why does the Emby app transcode? It says container/codec and audi not supported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 It might not be transcoding. It might only be swapping the container. Please attach the emby server and ffmpeg logs: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/?view=getnewpost Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekster 10 Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 It might not be transcoding. It might only be swapping the container. Please attach the emby server and ffmpeg logs: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/790-how-to-report-a-problem/?view=getnewpost Thanks. @@Luke it appears it is transcoding due to unknown codec. I have attached a combined server and transcode log. emby.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Ok well this is interlaced video and browser video players don't have any deinterlacing features. i suppose we could direct play it but then there will be interlacing artifacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekster 10 Posted June 26, 2018 Author Share Posted June 26, 2018 Ok well this is interlaced video and browser video players don't have any deinterlacing features. i suppose we could direct play it but then there will be interlacing artifacts. Can this be made into an option on the server in the future? I don't have this option on plex either but they have chosen to go the direct play route. It works ok in the plex web app - without transcoding - sometimes this is preffered over having to transcode and use CPU ressources, especially if it is an slow box. I don't mind it as i'm running on an Xeon machine, but some others might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 @@Trekster, since i can't recall the specific problematic situations, i'm going to experiment with allowing this to direct play, and then if other users report problems then we'll see what the best approach is. @@pünktchen or @@Waldonnis, do you have interlaced h264? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pünktchen 1258 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 @@Trekster, since i can't recall the specific problematic situations, i'm going to experiment with allowing this to direct play, and then if other users report problems then we'll see what the best approach is. @@pünktchen or @@Waldonnis, do you have interlaced h264? thanks. Yes i have interlaced hd channels. Is it in next Beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekster 10 Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 @@Trekster, since i can't recall the specific problematic situations, i'm going to experiment with allowing this to direct play, and then if other users report problems then we'll see what the best approach is. @@pünktchen or @@Waldonnis, do you have interlaced h264? thanks. @@Luke Great I'll give it a go when its ready Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Yes but it will only apply to interlaced h264. Do you have that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pünktchen 1258 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37066 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Ok great, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldonnis 148 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I probably still have an interlaced test pattern file here somewhere that I can play with. What's the issue (and goal), playing interlaced h.264 in Chrome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekster 10 Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 It's most likely that there could be tearing. But I hardly notice it. I have lots of recordings to test with of needed. Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldonnis 148 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I believe interlaced h.264 will play in Chrome if it's in a supported container. Just dragging my sample (mp4 containing a 1080i h.264 stream) into Chrome plays fine (or as well as can be expected). There may be some dependency on GPU support for deinterlacing, but I don't know Chrome's internals or code well enough to know where to look for that (browser development is "watching paint dry"-esque to me, lol). Easiest way to tell would be to disable hardware accelerated video decoding in Chrome, but that requires a relaunch and I can't do that at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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