Sigogglin 1 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I'm using the AndroidTV app on a Nvidia shield for playback. I've noticed that a couple movies recently have played back with transcoding on and the reason says bitrate too high. I've attached the ffmpeg transocde log from the latest issue. It is the newly remastered LOTR. From my understanding I should be able to stream this direct. ideas? ffmpeg-transcode-beac393e-e3b4-40af-a2be-af4eae66fdcc_1.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8296 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 VideoBitrate=63830047&AudioBitrate=384000 &TranscodeReasons=ContainerBitrateExceedsLimit Looks like you have about a 65Mbps set and what you are playing exceeds that. rough item bitrate "Bitrate":73634462 Now if you have it set on Auto then you may have to look at a higher default bitrate quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooty234 266 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Probably should be moved to the Android TV area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 It is set to auto. I'll set it higher and see how that works. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 11 hours ago, Sigogglin said: It is set to auto. I'll set it higher and see how that works. thanks Is this on your local network? Auto on a Shield on the LAN would set a higher bitrate max than that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 Yes, wired gigabit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Then please confirm it was actually on auto and, if it was, you probably need to make some adjustments somewhere to ensure that the device is seen as local to your server on your network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 This is what it was setup as. I just changed it to 4k - 120Mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Hi. We were talking about the setting in the Android TV app. The settings above govern the web app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 Ah, glad I posted that. It was also auto on the Shield, when I changed it to 140Mbps it stated direct streaming both video and audio, but would pause periodically. Can the Shield not handle this? Or is it a networking issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37096 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Sigogglin said: Ah, glad I posted that. It was also auto on the Shield, when I changed it to 140Mbps it stated direct streaming both video and audio, but would pause periodically. Can the Shield not handle this? Or is it a networking issue? Most likely it's the network not keeping up. Is the shield on wifi or wired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 wired, gigabit. It is connected at gigabit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 17 hours ago, Sigogglin said: It was also auto on the Shield, when I changed it to 140Mbps it stated direct streaming both video and audio This is the content you posted above? Are you using multiple networks or proxys or anything? Auto on the local LAN would set the max at 110Mb which would have direct played the item you posted above. If that wasn't happening then you should investigate why the server doesn't think this device is on your LAN. Maybe you're looping out to a remote address or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 They are one the same network. I changed the QOS of the switch to port based and gave the shield's port the highest priority. I can then play it fine, and after switching it back to auto it also streamed direct. Is there any smarts in auto where if the network connection doesn't look capable that it will down rev automatically? I also wonder if it was on the server side. My server (unRaid) was running a parity check and it makes me wonder if there was a bottle neck. It shouldn't as my server is pretty beefy with 64GB of memory, and 2 x Xeon E5-2680V3 CPU on a Supermicro X10DAC motherboard. I did look at it and did see any process load issue, nor IO issues, but I'm still wondering. I can't believe that the port priority would make any difference, as the only other things connected to that switch is a blu-ray player, Wii, etc. It is a switch only for the TV cabinet. Is there something I can look at in the log file to see if the server was struggling? thanks for the help, david Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 36 minutes ago, Sigogglin said: Is there any smarts in auto where if the network connection doesn't look capable that it will down rev automatically? Not if you are on your local LAN (and the server realizes this). 37 minutes ago, Sigogglin said: I also wonder if it was on the server side. My server (unRaid) was running a parity check and it makes me wonder if there was a bottle neck. Quite possibly. No matter how beefy your server is, I/O would be a potential bottleneck during that operation - especially with platters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 OK here is my server: I have it on my IOT VLAN, or the 10 subnet. The client is also on this same VLAN. However, when I wanted to stream from my PC it is on the 1 VLAN. So added this to the server: So it would treat my PC as on local LAN as well. Could this be interfering with what Emby thinks is local? Do I need to add 192.168.10.0/24 as well? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 @cayars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 21 hours ago, Sigogglin said: They are one the same network. I changed the QOS of the switch to port based and gave the shield's port the highest priority. I can then play it fine, and after switching it back to auto it also streamed direct. Is there any smarts in auto where if the network connection doesn't look capable that it will down rev automatically? I also wonder if it was on the server side. My server (unRaid) was running a parity check and it makes me wonder if there was a bottle neck. It shouldn't as my server is pretty beefy with 64GB of memory, and 2 x Xeon E5-2680V3 CPU on a Supermicro X10DAC motherboard. I did look at it and did see any process load issue, nor IO issues, but I'm still wondering. I can't believe that the port priority would make any difference, as the only other things connected to that switch is a blu-ray player, Wii, etc. It is a switch only for the TV cabinet. Is there something I can look at in the log file to see if the server was struggling? thanks for the help, david You likely don't need QOS on your network but if so you likely want to set for port 8096 so anything talking to Emby get's the highest QOS. Sure, running parity checks will likely cause small IO issues for video but likely not much difference to file copies. I'd wait until the parity check was done and run again to get a true feeling how things are working. 192.168.1.0/24 is fine but you want to add any VLANs in the loop including the VLAN the server is on 192.168.10.0/24 so 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.10.0/24, any other VLANs that will use Emby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 OK I'll add the VLAN the server is on as well. I didn't know if that was necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37096 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Let us know how you get on. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigogglin 1 Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 Is Emby 802.1p capable? Will it tag packets appropriately? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4284 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 How are you routing VLAN traffic - via a firewall or using a L3 switch ? ie how is traffic getting from VLAN 10 (Emby server) to VLAN 1 (default) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4284 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 ps - there is no need to add any RFC 1918 networks/vlan's to emby - they are automatically considered local - it says this in the text under the field... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 I don't think he's using "common networks" that are automatically picked up. Had he used 10.x space it work have worked without question but I don't think Emby picks up all 192.168.x ranges (but could be wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4284 Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Both are RFC 1918 (as is 172.16/12) - so I would hope so .... btw - I run multiple isolated/segment VLAN's on the 192.168.vlan.x structure - and apart from needing to route/allow the vlan's via a firewall (if not on the emby vlan) , I do not need to put anything special in this emby field - it classes them all correctly as local vlan's - as it should. Edited January 4, 2021 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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