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kanipek
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Yeah, you can try another log set.  Just one of them playing the bad channel will do.  I honestly don't expect to see anything very different but fingers crossed...

 

Edit - also play this exact same channel at the same time in the web app and then post the ffmpeg log from that session.  Maybe I can spot the difference.  Thanks.

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Not an expert but I have worked through similar issues with android players.  I set Emby app to downmix to stereo.  This forces server to transcode and handles androids audio problems with the codec stream.  It also defaults Emby into a full transcode.  I worked around this by setting up a LiveTV User in Emby and disabled the users ability to transcode video.  The net effect results in direct streaming versus direct playing.  The server transcodes the audio but not the video which is much much lighter on the server resources.  Uncheck the Direct stream Live TV option in the app as well.  Good Luck.

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Yeah, you can try another log set.  Just one of them playing the bad channel will do.  I honestly don't expect to see anything very different but fingers crossed...

 

Edit - also play this exact same channel at the same time in the web app and then post the ffmpeg log from that session.  Maybe I can spot the difference.  Thanks.

 

Okay logs sent @2 pm Eastern.

 

Server Name: Delta-Vega

 

Played channel 653 - Live PD - spinning circle

 

This is with Hardware Acceleration off - on the server and Direct Stream checked in the App.

 

Also attaching server logs.

 

Thanks again!

 

Edit - Tried checking the Use VLC option for live TV. That seems to fix the issue. Played several of the channels that would not play, checking the rest now. Still a bit slow, but I think if this remains stable it is a workable solution to the issue. They are Direct playing with this method.

server-63638745928.txt

ffmpeg-remux-26d41a30-eeb0-4364-be3f-b6132da214c5.txt

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kanipek

Not an expert but I have worked through similar issues with android players.  I set Emby app to downmix to stereo.  This forces server to transcode and handles androids audio problems with the codec stream.  It also defaults Emby into a full transcode.  I worked around this by setting up a LiveTV User in Emby and disabled the users ability to transcode video.  The net effect results in direct streaming versus direct playing.  The server transcodes the audio but not the video which is much much lighter on the server resources.  Uncheck the Direct stream Live TV option in the app as well.  Good Luck.

I appreciate the info. I did a little experimenting with your suggestions. I saw some improvement but still had channels that give a spinning circle in the app. Direct play is faster for me and that is was I am trying to get working on all the channels.

If this method fixed all the channels I would go with it for now, slower than direct play of course but it did seem a little faster than the standard config (forcing Emby to do it a certain way instead of letting Emby figure it out?)

Anyways thanks for the info. I will keep it in mind. Might help some others in similar situation.

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Okay logs sent @2 pm Eastern.

 

Server Name: Delta-Vega

 

Played channel 653 - Live PD - spinning circle

 

Hi.  Could you also please do this:

 

 

Edit - also play this exact same channel at the same time in the web app and then post the ffmpeg log from that session.  Maybe I can spot the difference.  Thanks.

 

Thanks.

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Hi.  Could you also please do this:

 

 

 

Thanks.

That ffmpeg log I sent was from doing that. Unless I misunderstand what you are asking. I played the exact same channel on Android TV App/Chrome browser. <-- Is that what you are asking about?

 

If I did that wrong I apologize. I did not specify it in the post that I also did it from the browser.

 

I can redo that test .

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kanipek

Please see if this is improved with 1.4.43.  Thanks.

 

 I will do that and report back.

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Please see if this is improved with 1.4.43.  Thanks.

 

Okay updated to 1.4.43

 

Unchecked use VLC for Live TV.

 

So far I have checked 10 mp4 channels and they are all playing - so that is a change for the better - not direct playing but they are playing.

Speed for tuning the channels is about the same, possibly at bit faster I will checked that more closely as I tune the other channels.

I have quite a few more to check. I will report back and upload the debug log and ffmpeg log a bit later.

 

Thanks!

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kanipek

Please see if this is improved with 1.4.43.  Thanks.

Okay logs sent @8:43 pm Eastern.

 

Server Name: Delta-Vega

 

Android TV Played channel 653 - Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath - played Direct Streaming

Emby Theater Played channel 653 - Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath - played Direct Streaming

 

This is with Hardware Acceleration off - on the server and Direct Stream checked in the App.

 

Also attaching server logs.

 

Thanks again!

server-63638935292.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-a89bd593-1d41-4049-8d07-617ea87692b2.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-3aef33b7-7c75-42a0-8372-c3167aca34d7.txt

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So this was successful and these logs are just for our reference, right?

 

Successful to the point where they played. Yes. Direct Streaming.

 

Unsuccessful that they did not Direct Play.

 

Direct Play does happen when using VLC. It is much faster at tuning/changing channels when they Direct Play.

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That's because the channels are interlaced.  The only way we can de-interlace them client-side is with VLC. 

 

So, at this point, everything appears to be working as it should.

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kanipek

That's because the channels are interlaced.  The only way we can de-interlace them client-side is with VLC. 

 

So, at this point, everything appears to be working as it should.

 

Thanks for the help in working on this. It is much appreciated.

 

Is the Android TV app using MPV (like is starting to be done in ET)? If not will it in the future? and lastly will that negate the need for VLC?

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Is the Android TV app using MPV (like is starting to be done in ET)? If not will it in the future? and lastly will that negate the need for VLC?

 

Not yet but possibly in the future.

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