RokuGuys 10 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I have some SD videos that are very blurry when played through Emby whereas Plex does a decent job playing the same. Are there any settings I am missing which causes this behavior in Emby? So far I tried match video resolution, switch refresh rate, De interlace SD videos and so on with no luck. Any tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Hi, Can you provide the metadata from the bottom of the detail screen for one of these videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokuGuys 10 Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 24 minutes ago, cayars said: Hi, Can you provide the metadata from the bottom of the detail screen for one of these videos? Video: Codec: mpeg4 Profile: Advanced Simple Profile Resolution:624 x 352 Framerate: 23.976025 Bitrate: 1000kbps Bitdepth: 8 bit RefFrames: 1 Audio: Codec: MP3 Layout: stereo Bitrate: 128 kbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 When you play this video does it direct play or does it transcode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokuGuys 10 Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 7 minutes ago, cayars said: When you play this video does it direct play or does it transcode. It transcodes as avi is not supported. Plex does DirectPlay. That makes the difference I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 What device is this playing on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokuGuys 10 Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Shield Pro. I converted it to mp4 which gave me DirectPlay error. So I converted it again to .ts, now it DirectPlays and looks ok. I have lot of avi files and I don't want to manually convert every single one of them. Is there a better alternative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4222 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Do you know what the original codec actually is - mpeg4 has many forms - try using something like mediaInfo to see what level of mpeg4 it is .. (divx, xvid, x263 etc) Also worth trying to just rename a test .avi file to .mp4 to see if it's just a container mix up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 835 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 You could sideload the app here: That version has Emby'su customized Exoplayer that direct plays Avi files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanmaCanada 335 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 On 29/10/2020 at 12:53, RokuGuys said: Shield Pro. I converted it to mp4 which gave me DirectPlay error. So I converted it again to .ts, now it DirectPlays and looks ok. I have lot of avi files and I don't want to manually convert every single one of them. Is there a better alternative? If you don't want to transcode them, then install kodi and use it as an external player. Everything will then direct play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 1 hour ago, RanmaCanada said: If you don't want to transcode them, then install kodi and use it as an external player. Everything will then direct play. Enhancements are coming to our app that will allow it to direct play more. You can preview it by seeing the link i gave above. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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