Theater 3.0.2 and transcoding

[arrbee99 1712]

Am beginning to wonder if desktop Theater 3.0.2 is transcoding stuff it used to direct play.

 

One of the midgets was watching Peaky Blinders S04E01 on his laptop using 3.0.1 and am pretty sure dashboard said it was direct playing. Now he's watching S04E03 using 3.0.2 and it says its transcoding. It says media bitrate exceeds limit. Dashboard says its running at 4.7Mbps and am using ethernet.

 

In the logs over the last day or two it plays Ep1 and Ep2 OK and for Ep3 it starts using ffmpeg...

 

 

 

 

 

embyserver-63671097600.txt

embyserver.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-e55b63d9-3480-483c-881a-9215573d452a.txt

[Guest asrequested]

Check your user bitrate settings and the app bitrate settings.

[arrbee99 1712]

If I'm looking in the right place (big if) on his Theater it says Video Quality - Home Network Quality - Auto.

 

On the server can't see anything except for Internet Streaming Bitrate Limit, and that's blank.

[Guest asrequested]

Try changing it to the max, which is 120 Mb/s, in Theater.

[arrbee99 1712]

I could, except he's now watching Ep 4, which is direct playing.

 

Maybe there something about that particular episode (Ep 3)...

[Guest asrequested]

I could, except he's now watching Ep 4, which is direct playing.

 

Maybe there something about that particular episode (Ep 3)...

 

Maybe, but I doubt it. I've had issues with auto not getting it right. I always set it to the max. Try it out, later. I would be interested to find out what's happening.

[arrbee99 1712]

Hokey dokey. I'll get him to change it, have another go with Ep 3 and see what happens.