lklemo 0 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 hi all, i have an premiere account (don't know if without it has any limitation on max quality) i just got new sony bravia 4k android TV and installed emby client. i got to test a movie 4k mp4 and start playing it but i noticed that the server was doing transcoding and cpu was at max. i tried to play same movie on my windows client an no transcoding was required 2160p @ 120mbps i did second test by sending to play to bravia via dlna from emby on my phone (leaving the quality to auto) and it worked directly without transcoding. the tv is cable connected to the network, and emby server is runing as plugin on freenas box. anyone any idea why playing from the emby app in the tv is requiring transcoding?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdatanet 1549 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Post the transcoding log to see why it's transcoding: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36991 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Hi, did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it was transcoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdatanet 1549 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Just now, Luke said: Hi, did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it was transcoding? This method is not accurate because many times it says that playback is direct and it's actually transcoding, even the server dashboard is saying "Direct play". It's better the transcoding log. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lklemo 0 Posted November 1, 2020 Author Share Posted November 1, 2020 i found the issue: it was the media file it was encoded with h264 , i got another one hvec h265 and it was not trascoding anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 36991 Posted November 1, 2020 Solution Share Posted November 1, 2020 1 hour ago, lklemo said: i found the issue: it was the media file it was encoded with h264 , i got another one hvec h265 and it was not trascoding anymore. That fact alone wouldn't explain why it is transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36991 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 3 hours ago, vdatanet said: This method is not accurate because many times it says that playback is direct and it's actually transcoding, even the server dashboard is saying "Direct play". It's better the transcoding log. Then please open a ticket in the android tv section and we'll resolve it, but we don't want to have to give all end users a more difficult process than necessary of finding out this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 835 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Luke said: Then please open a ticket in the android tv section and we'll resolve it, but we don't want to have to give all end users a more difficult process than necessary of finding out this information. It has been brought up in that topic at least twice... Edit: And btw, it is not only in the ATV app wrong but also in the server dashboard. Edited November 1, 2020 by neik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36991 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 26 minutes ago, neik said: It has been brought up in that topic at least twice... Edit: And btw, it is not only in the ATV app wrong but also in the server dashboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 835 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 @Luke, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lklemo 0 Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 11/1/2020 at 11:06 PM, Luke said: That fact alone wouldn't explain why it is transcoding. i did a mess by converting it to 4k with h264 and the file from 5G went up to 25G, maybe some of the settings i put in handbrake. it took 4 h to encode on E5-1650 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slrch 0 Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 me: buying nas to watch movies everywhere on everything also me: having constant pain in the neck with all of these media servers, transcoding issues, dlna buffering, client apps etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14897 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 20 hours ago, slrch said: me: buying nas to watch movies everywhere on everything also me: having constant pain in the neck with all of these media servers, transcoding issues, dlna buffering, client apps etc. Hi. We'd be happy to help you with whatever issues you are having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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