SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 VLC as a DLNA client works fine on my network. PCH A-100 can browse the emby DLNA directories, everything seems fine there. When I click to play something, A-100 screen says it is buffering for a couple seconds and then says Could not play the video. The same thing basically happens if I use the android phone emby app and try to play to the A-100. I can play DLNA fine on A-100 using plex. I'm happy to help debug this, just tell me what you might need. Log files from either emby or plex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Hi, most likely the media format that we're trying to send is not supported. In other words, we're either trying to direct play when we should be converting, or vice versa. Do you know how it tried to play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 How do I figure out what emby is sending to PCH? PCH is able to direct play almost everything in my library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 The emby server log will tell us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 here's a couple logs. not sure which request the directstream log is for. I first attempted to just use the A-100 to browse and then play an MPEG-2 from my HDHR. Then I tried using my phone to play to the A-100 (that didn't even seem to try to send anything when I was hitting play. Then there was just playing the video directly on my phone. embyserver.txt https://pastebin.com/NkEgJVn0 ffmpeg-directstream-356d145e-f6d3-4e2c-9d13-c69ebd534838_1.txt https://pastebin.com/cRNbF8eJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Does the popcorn hour support mpeg2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) Yes. This file plays fine via Samba. The A-100 supports just about everything, except h.265 and some very high level h.264 profiles. A-100 plays this file via Plex as a DirectPlay. Edited October 24, 2018 by SenorSmartyPants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Ok what i'm going to do is just delete our popcorn hour profile and just let it use the default profile, which is set to direct play just about everything. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 Ok. Please let me know what beta this makes it into and I'll test it out. Also, is there an article on how to modify a DLNA profile to tweak the settings? There are a couple of audio codecs that the PCH can pass-thru that my AVC can't decode. So I'd like to have emby trancode the audio on those. Here are a couple examples EAC 5.1 -> AC3 5.1 AAC 5.1 -> AC3 5.1 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 And a thought occurred to me. Plex DLNA URLs end in just file.mkv or file.ts, etc while emby does not terminate with the file extension. I don't know if this is having an effect on the A-100 or not. But if the default profile doesn't work perhaps this is an area to look at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Yes, it will be in the next release. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 I tried with the newest beta. Same result, nothing plays. Didn't have a chance to look at the log files yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 You may need to delete the popcorn profile xml file from the server manually as it's probably picking it up from your previous version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Does the log show which dlna profile gets used for a device? I've looked at the popcorn hour profile and didn't see any identification info so I wasn't sure that was even getting used. Or is there some hard coded matching going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Yes, the log will indicate this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 I moved the Popcorn system profile to a back up directory. I confirmed the profile was not listed in the system profiles in the web UI. H264/AAC video would not play. Emby log https://pastebin.com/wcvx3jzP Direct stream log https://pastebin.com/KEt3fvss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 I also went back and looked in the first log I posted. It was using the generic profile there as well. Is there anyway to try a upnp stream from emby but have the url end in the container extension? like http://emby-dlna/some/dirs/or/whatever/file.mkv Just to test if the problem is not having the extension right at the end. Plex has urls like this. Don't know if that's the issue thou, just trying to rule it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Well that is already a direct stream url, the problem is that the params on the query string appear to be encoded improperly by the device, so i have to try to find a workaround given that i can't test it without having a popcorn hour. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 (edited) I see the funky query string you mention. I'm happy to test any workarounds you come up with. Any chance of putting that into a docker image? That's how I currently have emby installed and would be easy to test anything you come up with. Currently running the beta. Thanks. Maybe a urlrewrite to the support having the querystring parameters in the url path instead. Then nothing will get escaped incorrectly. push this to DLNA client http://192.168.1.1:8096/videos/5291/2ff1679e68cf7223ec39e7aca860d22a/cbf1493dfa465bf2a0b1b63789949380/true/1/3a839a7bb9b0204e265cece6c5b8c9b0/true/stream.mkv and have the server rewrite it to the current form http://192.168.1.1:8096/videos/5291/stream.mkv?DeviceId=2ff1679e68cf7223ec39e7aca860d22a&MediaSourceId=cbf1493dfa465bf2a0b1b63789949380&Static=true&AudioStreamIndex=1&Tag=3a839a7bb9b0204e265cece6c5b8c9b0&dlnaheaders=true Just a thought. If while poking around in the DLNA code you make it register as activity on the server and then also sync to trakt, that would be super awesome. Double thanks. Edited November 5, 2018 by SenorSmartyPants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Is this a 2008 device? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorSmartyPants 4 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 That sounds about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36999 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 I'll see if i can think of anything. Unfortunately without having one of these for testing it's pretty much going to be guesswork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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