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Short random pauses while watching a movie


jamespauly

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jamespauly

Short random pauses while watching a movie.  This generally happens only when I'm playing a 4K movie.  If I play this same movie on Plex I have no issues. 

 

I really like the Emby Server and clients and was thinking I could replace my Plex server but I need to get these issues resolved.  I'm attaching the logs.

 

This happens on all clients (IOS, RoKu and LGTV)

 

Regards,
James

embyserver.txt

ffmpeg-transcode.txt

hardware-detection.txt

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Happy2Play

Best guess would be Plex plays it at a lower bitrate then Emby.  Emby almost doubles the bitrate when converting h265 to h264, or uses the max bitrate set on the client. (transcoding at almost 140mb with a file bitrate of only 76mb )

 

Does the same happen if you lower/set the bitrate (video quality) on the client?

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Okay that worked on my IOS device.  The next issue is with my 4K TV also pausing  I'll do some testing and get the logs.

 

Also is a Geforce GTX 1070 good enough for transcoding a 4K stream?

 

Thanks

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@@Luke

 

It’s better. One thing I noticed was it does not pause when I change the audio to AC3. When I changed to the default audio of TrueHD is when the pause occurs. I checked the server and it was barely working either way. I did not test with Hardware Acceleration since I did not renew my subscription. I want to make sure I can flush out the bugs.

 

Thanks for the update on the server. It’s definitely better.

 

I’ll get you logs. I didn’t have time last night.

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Here are the logs when TrueHD is selected and there are frequent pauses.  CPU is at ~4% and it says direct stream.

logs.zip

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Another interesting thing.  If I force it to transcode by using PGS subtitles and with TrueHD it never pauses.  It uses 50% of the processor but runs without issue.

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Here are the logs when TrueHD is selected and there are frequent pauses.  CPU is at ~4% and it says direct stream.

Hi @@jamespauly, this is the hardware detection log. Can you also supply the ffmpeg log? Thanks !

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