Pog22 50 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 I'd like to give a notification or pop up on playback to notify users their Emby client is transcoding, especially if they are transcoding 4k as it cripples the server. Whenever I find issues the user is usually completely unaware they are transcoding or causing issues for others as their steam is buffered. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Hi. I don't think that notification will mean much of anything to many users. What do you expect them to do upon receiving it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pog22 50 Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 hour ago, ebr said: Hi. I don't think that notification will mean much of anything to many users. What do you expect them to do upon receiving it? To remind them they are transcoding and could be affecting other users if it's during peak hours. It's always down to incorrect settings. My users (family and friends) use static devices, firesticks, mi boxes, smart TVs, no mobiles, very rarely browser but never an issue. Leaving client devices on auto always transcodes on wi-fi, but is fine if you manually set a high max bitrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikinjo 162 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 I think this would be really good to have icon on playing osd status if video is transcoding so user knows it, rarely users go to nerds statistics to see that information. Popup is not needed if u ask me, at least some icon on OSD that shows that video is transcoded. - users sometimes have bad connection and quality is than much lower due to transcoding and they are confused why is lower quality - 4k as Pog22 mentioned - bad configuration of client - old configuration of client (client limited bandwidth to some value and forgot to change it), this happens all the time - a lot messages to admin of server with questions about lower quality and user don't knows that video is transcoded (didnt check nerds section or don't know to read it) - etc... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4222 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 (edited) I'll add my support to this as I think it would be useful for the system admins. My users don't need to know this (or care frankly) but as my goal is to have a system that direct plays everything as much as possible, having a notification (and subsequently an email) of the transcoding playback, just sent to me (or whoever else is interested) would be useful for me to investigate why and try to correct it. Edited May 2, 2021 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 4 hours ago, rbjtech said: having a notification (and subsequently an email) of the transcoding playback, just sent to me That sounds like something that could be added to the notifications plug-in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 835 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 19 hours ago, Pog22 said: Leaving client devices on auto always transcodes on wi-fi, but is fine if you manually set a high max bitrate. In my opinion that's the main issue actually here. Auto doesn't always measure "correctly" and therefore leads to transcoding as the clients thinks the available bandwith isn't enough although it acutally is. Due to this behavior I just set all my clients to the max network speed and work around the issue but in a perfect world it would just work without me needing to adjust anything manually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4222 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, ebr said: That sounds like something that could be added to the notifications plug-in. Absolutely - getting the notification to an email, pushed etc is not the problem. I believe we just need a new notification type - some like 'Transcoding playback started' - maybe a subtype of 'Video playback stated' if there is such as thing ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1ng_Lear 184 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 +1 would be nice as automatic server message with an info how to avoid transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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