Question about my network

December 18, 2016

I'm seeing transcoding in WMC which I've never had happen before with media accessed via UNC and I'm not sure why or what to do to fix it. I assume if I see "buffering" on screen during playback that's an indication of transcoding since I've never seen it before and as far as I know it has always done direct playback. I see some lines like this earlier today:

2016-12-17 10:00:14.5784 Info App: Bitrate exceeds DirectPlay limit: media bitrate: 4173169, max bitrate: 37550

2016-12-17 10:00:14.5784 Info App: Profile: Unknown Profile, Path: \\theater\Media\Video\Adults\TV\Fixer Upper\Season 4\Fixer.Upper.S04E01.A.Dog-Loving.Couple.Searches.for.Their.First.Home.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-koalf.mkv, isEligibleForDirectPlay: True, isEligibleForDirectStream: False

But if I play the same file now it seems to transcode even though I don't have similar log messages now.

I'm not sure if it's related but I see a gazillion of these exception stack traces in my log file:

2016-12-17 19:11:53.9007 Error HttpServer: Error processing request

*** Error Report ***

Version: 3.1.6193.27714

Command line: C:\Users\myself\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\System\MediaBrowser.ServerApplication.exe

Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1

64-Bit OS: True

64-Bit Process: True

Processor count: 4

Program data path: C:\Users\myself\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server

Application directory: C:\Users\myself\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\System

System.IO.IOException: Unable to write data to the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndSend(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.IO.Stream.<>c.<BeginEndWriteAsync>b__53_1(Stream stream, IAsyncResult asyncResult)

at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskFactory`1.FromAsyncTrimPromise`1.Complete(TInstance thisRef, Func`3 endMethod, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Boolean requiresSynchronization)

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at SocketHttpListener.Net.ResponseStream.<WriteAsync>d__25.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at MediaBrowser.Api.Playback.Progressive.ProgressiveFileCopier.<CopyToAsyncInternal>d__20.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at MediaBrowser.Api.Playback.Progressive.ProgressiveFileCopier.<WriteToAsync>d__19.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at ServiceStack.HttpResponseExtensionsInternal.<WriteToOutputStream>d__0.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at ServiceStack.HttpResponseExtensionsInternal.<WriteToResponseInternal>d__3.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at ServiceStack.Host.RestHandler.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__19.MoveNext()

--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)

at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)

at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.HttpListenerHost.<RequestHandler>d__60.MoveNext()

System.IO.IOException