Poor streaming quality from VLC

[Leezio 0]

Hello everyone,

I have been using Emby for several months now and am having difficulty.
I decided to migrate from MiniDLNA to Emby's native DLNA, and the quality is very poor.
Do you have an idea of the configuration to adopt to solve this problem?
I am attaching you the screenshots in comparison, between the Emby web player and Emby DLNA.

Thks ^^

Bad Quality, with pixel

Very qood quality

Edited October 27, 2020 by Leezio
Add thks ^^

[Luke 40068]

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. thanks !

[Leezio 0]

Thank you for your return,
I attach the logs and the captures which better present the problem.

I have this error: Error Dlna: Error creating PlayTo device.

I don't know if this is related to the problem.

Thks ^^

With the Emby DLNA in VLC:

With Emby Web in Firefox:

embyserver.txt

Edited October 28, 2020 by Leezio

[Luke 40068]

Hi, and the ffmpeg log?

[Leezio 0]

Hi, yes, sorry.

Thks ^^.

ffmpeg-remux-117c18a0-4a40-4a5d-83bd-1562ca278393_1.txt ffmpeg-transcode-012b9bd1-0a18-4841-acdd-0a77d16d1102_1.txt

[Luke 40068]

HI, these are from Firefox. I thought the issue was with Vlc?

[Leezio 0]

Yes, the problem is on VLC. Are these different logs ?

[Luke 40068]

How about this. Please make the problem happen again, then attach all log files that were written to during the time period of the test. Thanks.

[Leezio 0]

I replayed the problem but i only have the log emby updates. The transcoding logs do not return any information. As if transcoding was not called. Sorry

embyserver.txt embyserver-63739526400.txt ffmpeg-remux-1f124dd3-e617-4b9b-844a-5b3c1b69e779_1.txt

Edited October 30, 2020 by Leezio

[Luke 40068]

OK the log says VLC direct played the file, which means Emby served the original file as-is without any modification (transcoding).

That means I'm sorry but I don't know the answer to what your issue is. Perhaps slow network performance and it's dropping frames? I really don't know but this doesn't look like an Emby-specific question.

[Leezio 0]

Hey,

I found out where the problem came from. If anyone ever meets him put the solution here.

In VLC, go to Tools > Preferences, then in Inputs/Codec tab.

Change Hardware Accelerated decoding to something other than Automatic or VDPAU.

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1566707/ubuntu-20-04-vlc-player-not-quitting & https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1871949/comments/8

Thks ^^

[Luke 40068]

Thanks for the feedback !