ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 It would be great to have the video stream selectable - same as is audio now. It appears to be getting more common to embed alternative streams (such as 1080p) alongside a UHD stream particularly within MKV's containers. This feature would allow us to select a 'best stream' for a given device, an example recently being my Samsung TV not handling 60fps which was the default stream in the MKV. A 1080p was available also but could not be selected, so my server had to transcode a large UHD high-framerate source file - pretty chunky cpu work which it struggled with and was not necessary. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Ok use MKVToolmix to extract the second video track and have it as a multi version movie Emby currently does not support multiple video streams in the same file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 Actually exactly what I’ve done - and transcoded 60fps back to UHD 30fps. Yes, Emby doesn’t support it - which is why this post is in feature requests :) I’ll head over to bug fixes later and point out it doesn’t appear to be honouring the ‘default’ flag to pick up the correct video stream - it seems to just grab the first stream irrespective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 yep first stream only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8218 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, ajeansnz said: I’ll head over to bug fixes later and point out it doesn’t appear to be honouring the ‘default’ flag to pick up the correct video stream - it seems to just grab the first stream irrespective. There is not a bug, Emby currently does not support multi-track video files. Currently you have to create two files, one with each video track. Old request. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/33800-select-video-stream-from-multi-video-mkv/ Edited September 7, 2020 by Happy2Play 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajeansnz 8 Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 Ah - I searched to check but didn’t find it. Back in 2017! I think we’ll see more of multiple video streams - and I get @Luke’s comment on keeping it simple. However with 8k, 4k, 1080 and multiple variations particularly frame rate now studios are pushing boundaries, I suspect we’ll see more of these MKVs. Perhaps worth a reconsider. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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