aoommen 1 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) As the title suggests trying to get the stuttering (or buffering or pausing and playing) fixed while streaming 4K content from my unRaid server which has pretty good transfer speeds on the LAN network connected (Screenshot below). I also have hardware acceleration enabled on my server using an Nvidia Quadro P2200 card, which I don't think matters for the shield playback (4K shows as direct playback on Shield) but wanted to mention in case it did. Emby Server: Docker container on unRaid 6.8.x (latest) Client: Nvidia Shield Pro with Emby App Network: 1Gig hardwired Ethernet connection via a gigabit switch Any and all help is appreciated. Edited December 12, 2020 by aoommen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 what happens when you force a transcode? hit the playback correction button on the client and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14939 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Hi. Can we please look at details of an example? Also, how are the drives mounted on the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 The drives are mounted as SATA drives on unRaid with 6Gbps uplink. I will post the transcode output and logs soon, but just for clarity I'm not trying to transcode here, using the Nvidia Shield, would like to play it in original quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14939 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 27 minutes ago, aoommen said: The drives are mounted as SATA drives But how does your Docker container "see" or access these drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 20 hours ago, ebr said: But how does your Docker container "see" or access these drives? Thanks for the response, do you mean the volume mappings for the container, if so, then here is the docker compose and library folder mapping screenshot - 4K content is in most of the library locations (split by movie language): version: '3.3' services: embyserver: container_name: EmbyServer network_mode: host environment: - TZ=America/Chicago - HOST_OS=Unraid - TCP_PORT_8096=8096 - APP_UID=99 - APP_GID=100 - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=GPU-MYGPUID volumes: - '/mnt:/mnt:rw' - '/mnt/user/appdata/EmbyServer:/config:rw' image: 'emby/embyserver:beta' Media: /mnt <-> /mntConfig Appdata: /config <-> /mnt/user/appdata/EmbyServer Here is a screenshot of the library mapping using the Media volume mapping, just noticed that collections is being mapped to the config folder - not sure if I can change that, did not see an edit option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RanmaCanada 352 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I would use ES File explorer and see what the actual transfer rates are from your UNRAID server to your Shield by trying to copy a file over (I know you have done something similar but another method is always good to try). It's possible it could be a drive being slow (I have some archive drives that only read at about 80mb/s and they are in the process of being replaced) It's possible it could also be the temp storage on your Shield that is giving it an issue, so I would suggest to test that also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, RanmaCanada said: I would use ES File explorer and see what the actual transfer rates are from your UNRAID server to your Shield by trying to copy a file over (I know you have done something similar but another method is always good to try). It's possible it could be a drive being slow (I have some archive drives that only read at about 80mb/s and they are in the process of being replaced) It's possible it could also be the temp storage on your Shield that is giving it an issue, so I would suggest to test that also. Thanks but I am positive it isn't LAN transfer speeds between server and client - the speeds are significantly higher than what is required for 4K playback or streaming. What I have tried to test that is use iperf3 with ShieldTV as the client, a little more descriptive and comprehensive than a single file transfer, to test that and the results from that is what is shown as the screenshot above. So, I believe we could rule out LAN speed as the root cause. That said, it could be still something I need to do at the server end not sure what though, hence the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Can you try this on the shield and see how it compares? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4291 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 On 23/11/2020 at 21:37, aoommen said: The drives are mounted as SATA drives on unRaid with 6Gbps uplink. I will post the transcode output and logs soon, but just for clarity I'm not trying to transcode here, using the Nvidia Shield, would like to play it in original quality. For elimination purposes - try with a standard 1Gig uplink. The port channelling may be interfering with things .. it shouldn't be as each connection will only ever use 1 of the port channels anyway .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) On 11/25/2020 at 7:48 AM, Luke said: Can you try this on the shield and see how it compares? Thanks Luke - do you mean sideload this apk instead of the play store Emby one on Shield? I am using the most recent available from play store currently, so we would be rolling back here right? Could you please let me know the reason why? Also 'for Android' vs 'for Android TV' - would that be a problem? Edited November 26, 2020 by aoommen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Yes if you could try sideloading that it would be a helpful test. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 On 11/26/2020 at 12:26 PM, Luke said: Yes if you could try sideloading that it would be a helpful test. Thanks. @Luke Apologies for the late reply, I did try this and sideloaded the old version and it did not fix it. However, I recently updated the hardware on my server - beefed up my CPU and added some RAM sticks, and now this is no longer an issue, so unsure what was the issue but it is fixed now. 4K plays well on Shield. I started having a library scan error today, log is attached. Looks to me (with severely limited knowledge) as if it is ffprobe related, there are a bunch if ImagebyName paths being shows as deleted in the log, not sure what all this is about. Please take a look and let me know. Not sure if this is related - I had to repair FS corruption on one of my disks on the server and rebuild parity. But once the disk was re-added to the array a bunch of old movies and shows were shown added as new to Emby and my phone was blowing up with pushbullet notifications. embyserver.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 !!Bump!! Anyone. This is still an issue. Just for reference - I do have Plex running as a docker container as well on the same server and accessing the same shares, and they are updating without issues. I do not use Plex often but just checked to see and they are updating. So unsure what happened with Emby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Hi, what old version did you sideload? Id like to know what the version number was because there has been a lot of recent development on the video player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 6 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, what old version did you sideload? Id like to know what the version number was because there has been a lot of recent development on the video player. I'm confused - the one you linked above. Wasn't that what you wanted me to do? See below. On 11/25/2020 at 7:48 AM, Luke said: Can you try this on the shield and see how it compares? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdatanet 1549 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 7 hours ago, aoommen said: I'm confused - the one you linked above. Wasn't that what you wanted me to do? See below Yes, it's the same link for the updated version, current version is 3.1.69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoommen 1 Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 12 hours ago, vdatanet said: Yes, it's the same link for the updated version, current version is 3.1.69 Thanks, yes that is the one I sideloaded but the stuttering was still happening when 4K content was played on that App on Shield. But with the server hardware being upgraded recently that issue is solved now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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