rodainas 188 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I have Emby for AndroidTV and the player cant direct play this format: Video TitleSD MPEG4 CodecMPEG4 Codec TagXVID I have tested the latest emby app on a FireTV Stick 4K and Nvidia Shield Pro 2019. I know for sure my devices can play this format natively, because I tested it with Kodi with emby for kodi and emby con in both devices with no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Hi. It is playing, just not direct playing, correct? Can we please look at an example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdatanet 1549 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, rodainas said: I have Emby for AndroidTV and the player cant direct play this format: Video TitleSD MPEG4 CodecMPEG4 Codec TagXVID I have tested the latest emby app on a FireTV Stick 4K and Nvidia Shield Pro 2019. I know for sure my devices can play this format natively, because I tested it with Kodi with emby for kodi and emby con in both devices with no problem. Exoplayer does not support that formats, so transcoding is required. The good news are that the new Emby for Android Mobile supports software decoders and it can direct play that. Sooner or later, this will also be incorporated into the Android TV application. One thing is what the Shield supports and another is what Exoplayer supports. Edited November 5, 2020 by vdatanet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Thats good news, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 3 hours ago, vdatanet said: One thing is what the Shield supports and another is what Exoplayer supports. Native Exoplayer supports whatever decoders the Shield has. The Shield does not have decoders for this. The reason it works in Kodi and our customized Exo is because both add software decoders (via ffmpeg). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodainas 188 Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Thanks for the explanation, we will have to wait for the updated androidtv version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 On 11/5/2020 at 9:56 PM, vdatanet said: Exoplayer does not support that formats, so transcoding is required. The good news are that the new Emby for Android Mobile supports software decoders and it can direct play that. Sooner or later, this will also be incorporated into the Android TV application. One thing is what the Shield supports and another is what Exoplayer supports. One year later and this still has not been incorporated into the Android TV app... one year? really? Isn't this a pay-for app? Just kind of frustrated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37053 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Hi, please try side loading our standard Android app into the same device and let us know how that compares: https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 1 hour ago, andyxoxo said: One year later and this still has not been incorporated into the Android TV app... one year? really? Isn't this a pay-for app? Just kind of frustrated... The changes referenced in that post have been incorporated in this app. If we can look at specifics we may be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) Thanks for your replies guys... okay later today I will make a post detailing all the audio problems I am having with the AndroidTV app on my brand new 2021 x85j Sony TV, problems which are not occuring (at least to the same extent) with the Emby app on my 4k Firestick. In short, all audio formats (aac, mp3, ac-3, eac3, dts all) are being software decoded while using the AndroidTV app, not one audio format is being direct played (Plex AndroidTV app works fine). But I will post this later. But I do believe that this problem here in this thread is an actual "Transcode" problem which I also have so I will keep this topic here and not over in that other thread. Edited November 20, 2021 by andyxoxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) Okay, I am still having the same problem as the original poster in this thread in that an .avi file containing XviD & mp3 transcodes using the Emby AndroidTV app whether its installed on my Sony Bravia x85J or 4K Firestick. Either one transcodes it... see screenshot : Edited November 20, 2021 by andyxoxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) 21 hours ago, Luke said: Hi, please try side loading our standard Android app into the same device and let us know how that compares: https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html Thanks! Okay, I sideloaded it and after much difficulty I was able to tab over to stats for nerds as it seems this app is for phones and my device is a TV... but I did get it to finally come up. An .avi file with xvid & mp3 does seem to direct play with your standard app but as I posted above it doesn't with the AndroidTV app... The AndroidTV transcodes them with an unsupported container error (as can be soon on the above post screenshot)... cheers Edited November 20, 2021 by andyxoxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Hi. Yes, the case of the AVI container is still one of the rare exceptions as that is not supported by the player in this app. The standard Android app should be able to handle it though but what you want to do is go into the settings in that app and change your display mode to "TV". That will make navigation much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) Thanks for your reply... but I gotta say that there are literally trillions of avi files with xvid & mp3 out there in the world (before AVC took over) so how can you charge for an app that can't even direct play this extremely common file type? Am not being difficult, I just would like to know how & why this hasn't been fixed in Emby yet... Edited November 20, 2021 by andyxoxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37053 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 3 hours ago, andyxoxo said: Okay, I sideloaded it and after much difficulty I was able to tab over to stats for nerds as it seems this app is for phones and my device is a TV... but I did get it to finally come up. An .avi file with xvid & mp3 does seem to direct play with your standard app but as I posted above it doesn't with the AndroidTV app... The AndroidTV transcodes them with an unsupported container error (as can be soon on the above post screenshot)... cheers If you set the app into tv display mode then it should work well with a remote control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 9 hours ago, Luke said: If you set the app into tv display mode then it should work well with a remote control i am looking at the settings and cannot find any setting for "tv display mode"... where is this please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 3286 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, andyxoxo said: i am looking at the settings and cannot find any setting for "tv display mode"... where is this please? Click on your user icon top-right, 'Display' section (first one in a row), 'Display mode' (third one in a row). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) Thanx found it but still hard to navigate with tv remote... double skips with only one key press on sony bravia x85J. The androidTV app navigates fine... Edited November 21, 2021 by andyxoxo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37053 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 17 hours ago, andyxoxo said: Thanx found it but still hard to navigate with tv remote... double skips with only one key press on sony bravia x85J. The androidTV app navigates fine... I haven't seen that before, but we'll take a look at it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyxoxo 4 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 That's all well and good but when will this transcoding problem described in this thread be fixed? The original post in this thread is a year old so you have known about it that long and ebr also said in this thread it was fixed but it's not... will this ever be fixed? Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 10 hours ago, andyxoxo said: ebr also said in this thread it was fixed but it's not Hi. Sorry if that was mis-interpreted. The question was specifically about changes to Exoplayer being ported to the TV app and that has been done. Unfortunately, this issue is not related to those changes as Exoplayer simply does not support the AVI container (even with our changes). The standard app, however, does support direct playing this container (by other means) so that is definitely the best option at this point in time if you must avoid remuxing AVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 On 11/20/2021 at 3:14 PM, ebr said: Yes, the case of the AVI container is still one of the rare exceptions as that is not supported by the player in this app. By "this app" you mean Android TV, right? I can confirm that my AVI files play just fine on .54 ATV beta and has been playing fine for a couple of versions now. Or is there a misunderstanding on my side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 1 hour ago, neik said: I can confirm that my AVI files play just fine on .54 ATV beta and has been playing fine for a couple of versions now. They play just fine and always have. They just require remuxing and, depending on the codec inside, that may also trigger a transcode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 34 minutes ago, ebr said: They just require remuxing What I acutally meant was that they are direct playing without remuxing or transcoding. AVI container, mpeg4 & mp3 audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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