dasfox 3 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 (edited) I have a built-in chromecast ultra in my TV. And when I try and cast a movie where the bitrate is high in h.264 or h.265. It transcodes. I know it is not the chromecast since Plex can direct play the same movie on the chromecast. I used the jellyfish test files and found that Emby transcodes h.265 regardless of bitrate, and I could direct play the 30Mbps h.264 test file but not the 35Mbps h.264 test file. Attached are screenshots from Plex and Emby with the transcoding status and logs from emby. Emby transcodes this 3Mbps test HEVC file. It can direct play this 30Mbps test h.264 file But not this 35Mbps test h.264 file Emby transcodes this movie in h.264 and h.265 But Plex can direct play the same movie in both h.264 and h.265 htttydLog.txt JellyfishLog.txt 3mbpsHEVCLog.txt Edited April 2, 2019 by dasfox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8332 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 (edited) You will need to post the ffmpeg logs to show why it is transcoding. Edited April 2, 2019 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasfox 3 Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Sorry Attached are the ffmpeg logs 35Mbps ffmpeg.txt Movie h.264 ffmpeg.txt HEVC ffmpg 3Mbps.txt Movie h.265 ffmpeg.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8332 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I don't know anything about Chromecast, so well have to wait for Luke's response. But the condition shown for the device show these limitiations. h.ttp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8096/emby/videos/3461/stream.mkv?DeviceId=TGl2aW5nIFJvb20gVFY1&MediaSourceId=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&VideoCodec=h264,vp8,vp9&AudioCodec=ac3,eac3,aac,mp3,opus,flac,vorbis&VideoBitrate=30000000&AudioBitrate=192000&PlaySessionId=d332287060a249f2974fcbbf945287e7&api_key=APIKEY&TranscodingMaxAudioChannels=6&CopyTimestamps=true&h264-profile=high,main,baseline,constrainedbaseline&h264-level=42&aac-audiochannels=2&TranscodeReasons=VideoBitrateNotSupported Sound like it may be related to this topic in the way the device is identified. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/71442-bug-4k-hdr-20-aac-to-chromecast-ultra-transcoded-when-should-direct-play/?hl=%2Bchromecast+%2Bultra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasfox 3 Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Yeah, I have a TV similar to that with a built-in one. That was what I thought that it was it not advertising what media types it can support. I just don't understand how Plex can know how to direct play the content though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8332 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I can only assume a different identification method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasfox 3 Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 Just adding for anyone that finds this thread with the same problem, my workaround is that I made a user for the chromecast where I disabled video transcoding and just cast with that account so I get direct play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37178 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Hi, thanks for reporting. We're looking into this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37178 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Hi, please try this again and let me know if there's still an issue. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasfox 3 Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 It is direct streaming now! Thank you so much! You guys are very responsive to the community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37178 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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