Guest Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) I'm trying out Emby and Plex and today i'm trying to use it to watch home movies which are stored in .MTS container (filmed on a Panasonic camera). I can watch it on the browser and the phone fine, but it won't stream to the Chromecast. Is it doable? Thanks. Title1080p H264 CodecH264 Codec tagHDPR AVCNo ProfileHigh Level42 Resolution1920x1080 Aspect ratio16:9 AnamorphicNo InterlacedNo Framerate50 Bitrate28,228 kbps Bit depth8 bit Pixel formatyuv420p Ref frames1 NAL0 AudioTitleDolby Digital stereo CodecAC3 Codec tagAC-3 Layoutstereo Channels2 ch Bitrate192 kbps Sample rate48,000 Hz DefaultNoSubtitleTitleUnd (PGSSUB) CodecPGSSUB DefaultNo ForcedNo ExternalNoContainermpegts Path/mnt/Photos/2019/07-5/00136.MTS Size123 MB Edited April 10, 2020 by DifficultDerek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 HI there, what happens when you try to stream to chromecast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Hi Luke. It gets the 'thinking dial' for about half a second then the screen just blanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Ok, please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Hiya. Sorry it's taken so long to come back - I actually wiped my testbed and started over, hence the extensive delay. I've tested a couple of other files (i don't actually remember what the original one was now) which are filmed with the same camera - and the same result. I've attached the logs. Thanks. ffmpeg-remux-c33341d4-ed78-4138-81dd-d53c1bea4c9d_1.txt ffmpeg-remux-7fd1a224-e997-43ae-b9a2-df2c958d8de7_1.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 @@DifficultDerek if you lower the Chromecast quality setting to force a full transcode, does this resolve it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Sorry, how do i do that? I've googled Chromecast quality settings but the only thing i've found is via the Chrome browser (which i don't use). Is it in Emby? The Transcoding section? I set that to Slow / 21. Didn't work. These videos are short (like a couple of minutes) but the bitrate on this particular one i'm trying right now is 28,087. And ~250mb. Edited March 30, 2020 by DifficultDerek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 No, it's in the app settings that you're casting from. Click your user icon in the top right -> then playback settings -> then chromecast quality will be under that. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Hi Luke - that worked. I could stream all the way up to 25Mbps but no higher. It might be because my ChromeCast is an older model - it doesn't have 4K capability so it probably is has limited bitrate capability at 1080 too. Thank you. SOLVED Edited April 10, 2020 by DifficultDerek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37132 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Thanks for the feedback. I think what needs to happen is we really should automatically transcode these. I think there's some kind of compatibility problem with these videos. The problem is they look like ordinary h264 so it's hard for us to detect that it should be transcoded, so that's why you had to use the quality setting to force the transcoding. We'll look at improving it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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