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Alefielm

Hi I have some video files detected as 1080i and not playing to Chromecast, it plays fine on Samsung TV native player via stream from emby.

What could be happening? Any metadata I can give you to help identify and solve the wrong format detection?

Thank you

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Alefielm

Thank you statula, sorry about not reading that topic.

 

Emby server Linux Version 4.3.1.0

Player: Chromecast Ultra

 

ffmpeg Log attached, video shows black screen for some seconds, then start playing (this is new, before it stayed on black screen and I stoped the video)...and it buffers constantly. I have this problem with 2 tv series, anything else works perfectly.

Any idea?

Thank you!

 

Media info ON emby:

 

Video

Title1080i H264
CodecH264
AVCYes
ProfileHigh
Level40
Resolution1920x1080
Aspect ratio16:9
AnamorphicNo
InterlacedYes
Framerate25
Bitrate3,825 kbps
Color primariesbt709
Color spacebt709
Color transferbt709
Bit depth8 bit
Pixel formatyuv420p
Ref frames1
NAL4

 

Media Info from...mediainfo:

 

Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 4
File size                                : 1.60 GiB
Duration                                 : 59 min 44 s
Overall bit rate                         : 3 826 kb/s
Encoded date                             : UTC 2010-02-22 21:41:29
Writing application                      : no_variable_data
Writing library                          : no_variable_data
 
Video
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4
Format settings                          : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames        : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP                     : M=8, N=24
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 59 min 44 s
Bit rate                                 : 3 365 kb/s
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Standard                                 : Component
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : MBAFF
Scan type, store method                  : Interleaved fields
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.065
Stream size                              : 1.40 GiB (88%)
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
Color range                              : Limited
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
 
Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Codec ID                                 : A_AC3
Duration                                 : 59 min 44 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 384 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)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -619 ms
Stream size                              : 164 MiB (10%)
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
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Hi.  It looks to me like mediainfo agrees with our assessment that this item is interlaced:

Scan type, store method                  : Interleaved fields

Why do you believe that it isn't?

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Alefielm

Maybe I misread, first time I have a 1080i file, maybe that's the reason for the bad playback?

forgot to press "Attach This File" emby log attached this time

emby log.txt

Thank you!

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The app tried to direct play the file, but the video player had some trouble with it and so therefore it automatically switched to transcoding with the server to help make it playable.

 

Unfortunately it appears your server just can't transcode it fast enough so that didn't go well either. Have you checked out our media conversion feature? You could use that to convert the file to a more streaming friendly format:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-423-emby-server-34-released/

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

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Alefielm

The app tried to direct play the file, but the video player had some trouble with it and so therefore it automatically switched to transcoding with the server to help make it playable.

 

Unfortunately it appears your server just can't transcode it fast enough so that didn't go well either. Have you checked out our media conversion feature? You could use that to convert the file to a more streaming friendly format:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-423-emby-server-34-released/

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

That means that Chromecast doesn't support 1080i?

Thank you!

 

Edit: I just saw convert is only for Emby premiere :(

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Officially no, it does not support interlaced content, however, in some cases it will actually play successfully. This is unpredictable though and even when it direct plays successfully, it doesn't support any deinterlacing.

 

 

 

Edit: I just saw convert is only for Emby premiere 

Yes we work very hard on Emby and we thank you for your support.

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