barat 27 Posted August 31, 2018 Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) Hi, I've just bought Surface Pro (i5 7300u) and installed EmbyTheater from Windows Store. Problem is, that when I try to play 1080p h264 video playback is slow/choppy/unwatchable. Emby Server (DS916+) is saying, that's DirectPlay so no transcoding issue here, nor problems with paths. Also I've tried to use VLC to play mkv directly from NAS share - playback started immediately and was smooth. Maybe something with codecs incorporated in UWP ET is wrong? Also - checked tv.emby.media on Edge - no luck. Meanwhile 4k Youtube does fine ... TL;DR; Surface plays h264 fine, but not from EmbyTheathere where it's choppy/slow. Edited August 31, 2018 by barat
arrbee99 1675 Posted August 31, 2018 Posted August 31, 2018 Am not a dev so I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but am just wondering if installing this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/mpeg2-video-extension/9n95q1zzpmh4?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab might help ? Or maybe you could try the Emby Theater app from the Emby website ? https://emby.media/emby-theater.html
Luke 39003 Posted August 31, 2018 Posted August 31, 2018 Can you provide the media info from the web app of this file? thanks.
barat 27 Posted September 20, 2018 Author Posted September 20, 2018 (edited) Hi @@Luke - sorry for delay. today I had some time, so I cleared logs, restarted NAS and Emby, and then played same file 1st from iPad app, then Nvidia Shield, Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge, Emby Theater from Win 10 store and last - from the browser (tv.emby.media). iPad, Galaxy 7 and Shield played the file almost instantly, browser needed few seconds this time (before server restart I had problems in Chrome as well), but ET is no-go. I tried it on my PC (4790k, 16GB Ram + 1060GTX 6GB, so it should be enough for 1080p, also it plays this file fine through MPC-HC & VideoLAN). I'm attaching logs + ss from geek stats window. Hope, that this will make you know what's wrong ... ffmpeg-remux-a7283b1f-1b78-4913-959a-8cbc401d6abf.txt ffmpeg-remux-acf61b55-c2e5-4d80-906a-2628cf77bcd6.txt server.txt start-stop-status_20180920.log Edited September 20, 2018 by barat
barat 27 Posted October 14, 2018 Author Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) @@Luke - had you some time to check my issue? Windows 10 on Surface Pro and PC is still no-go for me ... Nvidia Shield, Android, iOS - all is ok, also PC/Surface is playing video files from NAS fine when using VLC/MPC-HC ... Additional facts - Edge on Surface Pro can't even connect to my tv.emby.media when I enter server IP manually. Next thing is that I've uninstalled UWPversion of ET, and installed from here: https://emby.media/emby-theater.html This one plays OK (well, I need to wait few seconds for video to start, or when I click somewhere further in timeline). This semi-solves my problem - I can watch movies using ET app, but I want to have as many UWP apps as I can on Surface Pro so it'll be nice to have working UWP Emby . Edited October 14, 2018 by barat
Luke 39003 Posted October 16, 2018 Posted October 16, 2018 Have you tried lowering the in-app quality setting?
barat 27 Posted October 17, 2018 Author Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Have you tried lowering the in-app quality setting? I can check it today, but I don't think that this could (or even should) be an issue. I've tested it with default settings. Only UWP and in-browser tv.emby.media is unusable (on i5 7200u Surface and 4790k+GTX1060PC), desktop app is doing fine, and after turning on hardware acceleration playback start/resume is almost instant. Edited October 17, 2018 by barat
barat 27 Posted October 19, 2018 Author Posted October 19, 2018 Yes - GTX1060 is even capable for 8k HEVC, also 7300U as all Kaby Lake supports H.265/HEVC Main 10 with a 10-bit color.
Luke 39003 Posted October 19, 2018 Posted October 19, 2018 Have you installed the hevc extension from the microsoft store?
barat 27 Posted October 22, 2018 Author Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) Bougth and installed - still no luck. I even can play this file (and movie files overall) via native Windows "Movies & TV" app ... only no-go are Emby from Windows Store, and Emby from browser ... Emby for Windows, VLC, MPC-HC, Windows Media Player ... all those apps works fine (directly watching from NAS server). File info (from MPC-HC): Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 11.9 GiB Duration : 2 h 14 min Overall bit rate : 12.7 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2018-05-17 14:51:06 Writing application : mkvmerge v22.0.0 ('At The End Of The World') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.8 Video ID : 3 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 2 h 14 min Bit rate : 11.0 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 804 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS Original frame rate : 24.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.297 Stream size : 10.3 GiB (87%) Writing library : x264 core 124 r2197+666+28 3970b70 tMod+MixAQ [8-bit@4:2:0 X86_64] Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=11 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.00 / psy_rd=1.05:0.10 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=11000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.75 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1 / aq-strength=0.75 / aq-sensitivity=10.00 / aq-ifactor=1.00 / aq-pfactor=1.00 / aq-bfactor=1.00 / aq2=0 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #1 ID : 1 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 2 h 14 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 185 MiB (2%) Language : Polish Service kind : Complete Main Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #2 ID : 4 Format : DTS Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 2 h 14 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 509 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : C L R Ls Rs LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 1.42 GiB (12%) Language : English Default : No Forced : No Text ID : 2 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 2 h 12 min Bit rate : 1 b/s Count of elements : 75 Stream size : 1.34 KiB (0%) Title : Polish Forced Language : Polish Default : Yes Forced : Yes Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:00:00:00.000 00:06:56.291 : en:00:06:56.291 00:12:02.805 : en:00:12:02.805 00:19:12.360 : en:00:19:12.360 00:28:32.961 : en:00:28:32.961 00:33:11.698 : en:00:33:11.698 00:40:57.497 : en:00:40:57.497 00:48:34.036 : en:00:48:34.036 00:53:46.098 : en:00:53:46.098 01:01:57.339 : en:01:01:57.339 01:08:33.026 : en:01:08:33.026 01:16:46.769 : en:01:16:46.769 01:22:24.022 : en:01:22:24.022 01:31:21.434 : en:01:31:21.434 01:41:15.361 : en:01:41:15.361 01:50:56.483 : en:01:50:56.483 01:59:16.941 : en:01:59:16.941 02:02:43.648 : en:02:02:43.648 It's even not HEVC - just h264 This file for example plays OK: Format version : Version 4 File size : 10.5 GiB Duration : 1 h 47 min Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 14.0 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2018-07-11 20:23:47 Writing application : mkvmerge v15.0.0 ('Duel with the Devil') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.3.5 + libmatroska v1.4.5 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 1 h 47 min Bit rate : 9 571 kb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 800 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.260 Stream size : 7.17 GiB (68%) Writing library : x264 core 155 r2901 7d0ff22 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=25 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=9571 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : DTS XLL Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio Codec ID : A_DTS Duration : 1 h 47 min Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 4 013 kb/s Channel(s) : 8 channels Channel layout : C L R LFE Lb Rb Lss Rss Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF) Bit depth : 24 bits Compression mode : Lossless Stream size : 3.01 GiB (29%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #2 ID : 4 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 1 h 47 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 448 kb/s Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel layout : L R C LFE Ls Rs Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 344 MiB (3%) Language : Polish Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Text #1 ID : 3 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 37 min Bit rate : 55 b/s Count of elements : 1267 Stream size : 39.4 KiB (0%) Title : English-SRT Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Text #2 ID : 5 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 1 h 39 min Bit rate : 50 b/s Count of elements : 1208 Stream size : 36.8 KiB (0%) Language : Polish Default : No Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : en:00:00:00.000 00:12:58.528 : en:00:12:58.528 00:19:56.278 : en:00:19:56.278 00:29:53.291 : en:00:29:53.291 00:40:35.391 : en:00:40:35.391 00:49:10.906 : en:00:49:10.906 01:02:38.171 : en:01:02:38.171 01:10:37.650 : en:01:10:37.650 01:20:10.472 : en:01:20:10.472 01:29:23.608 : en:01:29:23.608 01:39:43.186 : en:01:39:43.186 Edited October 22, 2018 by barat
Deathsquirrel 743 Posted October 24, 2018 Posted October 24, 2018 Does it play better windowed? That's what I see with ET desktop on my surface. The app store players, ET and Ember, don't have he problem.
barat 27 Posted October 24, 2018 Author Posted October 24, 2018 It's not only Surface - it's also i7 4790k@4.5GHz + GTX1060 ...
jlader 0 Posted October 25, 2018 Posted October 25, 2018 What type of wireless network do you have? G N AC? Is your server hardwired?
jlader 0 Posted October 25, 2018 Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) I have Emby Theater of a Surface Pro 3 connected via an ASUS AC router (Server older windows 7 machine that is also my MCE unit - hardwired to network). Also, I have an older Surface 3 (Atom CPU). Both play my live TV via Hd Homerun Connect with no chop - better than HD Homerun app. Recorded video has no problems either. The issue I have with Emby THeater on the Surface Pro 3 is it's not as touch friendly as I would like. For example - to shut down the app I need to use the title bar "X" instead of sliding down from the top as I do w/ other apps. Edited October 25, 2018 by jlader
Luke 39003 Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 sliding down from the top as I do w/ other apps. We should be able to get that to work. Thanks.
barat 27 Posted October 30, 2018 Author Posted October 30, 2018 What type of wireless network do you have? G N AC? Is your server hardwired? It's ASUS RT N18U. NAS is hardwired. Network is not a problem - I can play media from server just fine from Surface and bully PC (wired - have like 100MB up/dl) on almost any app except UWP ET ...
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