Remote or Internet Video Quality

[ng4ever 40]

For Remote or Internet Video Quality what option do you normally use?

Talking about for clients. (friends or family)

 

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by ng4ever

[Happy2Play 9783]

Depends on your upload speed and total remote uses at given time, but I have them set to max client quality (as Auto can be flaky) and apply user "Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps):"

Edited July 18, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Painkiller88 250]

2 minutes ago, ng4ever said:

For Remote or Internet Video Quality what option do you normally use?

Talking about for clients. (friends or family)

 

 

For me it depends on your Server Settings. Lets say you allow a maximum bitrate of 8MBit per stream and the client is set to auto, i see them using 3MBit or less, so setting the client to 10MBit instead of AUTO will give them the max serverside set 8MBit for sure if their internet bandwith is ok

[ng4ever 40]

Just now, Happy2Play said:

Depends on your upload speed and total remote uses at given time, but I have them set to max client quality and apply user "Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps):"

My upload speed is 1 Gbps (well really 940 to 960 Mbps internet overhead)

Total remote uses would be like maybe 3 if that. Maybe more than 2.

By max client quality you mean like 120 Mbps 4K right ?

 

Both of the remote clients have kinda slow download speed. One 60 Mbps max and the other 25 Mbps max.

[ng4ever 40]

1 minute ago, Painkiller8818 said:

For me it depends on your Server Settings. Lets say you allow a maximum bitrate of 8MBit per stream and the client is set to auto, i see them using 3MBit or less, so setting the client to 10MBit instead of AUTO will give them the max serverside set 8MBit for sure if their internet bandwith is ok

Cool.

 

[ng4ever 40]

@Happy2Play Your right auto is flaky I noticed that the other day. My nephew only got 3.3 Mbps for a movie he was playing where a few days ago 13.3 Mbps.

 

[ng4ever 40]

So are you all saying I should set the quality on the Emby client app to max quality/120 Mbps 4k even if the client does not have 120 Mbps download ?

 

Then set a user Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps) ?

 

Like 60 Mbps for one of them and 25 Mbps for the other ?

 

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

4 minutes ago, ng4ever said:

So are you all saying I should set the quality on the Emby client app to max quality/120 Mbps 4k even if the client does not have 120 Mbps download ?

 

Then set a user Internet streaming bitrate limit (Mbps) ?

 

Like 60 Mbps for one of them and 25 Mbps for the other ?

 

 

Sure you could but I would not expect high bitrate items to perform across the internet.  There is a reason providers like Netflix limit to like 20-25Mbps.

[ng4ever 40]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

Sure you could but I would not expect high bitrate items to perform across the internet.  There is a reason providers like Netflix limit to like 20-25Mbps.

What do you mean ? Would that not work ?

 

 

 

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

All you can do is try but sustain high bitrate items were never meant for network they were designed for HDMI.  So the odd of High bitrate items transmitted across the internet will be questionable.  I will not say not possible as ever route can be different with every connection.

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, ng4ever said:

My upload speed is 1 Gbps (well really 940 to 960 Mbps internet overhead)

Total remote uses would be like maybe 3 if that. Maybe more than 2.

By max client quality you mean like 120 Mbps 4K right ?

 

Both of the remote clients have kinda slow download speed. One 60 Mbps max and the other 25 Mbps max.

With 1GB upload, sure you could try setting each client at max settings. (this is my setup).

Then if any particular friend or device can't handle the max settings try each lower setting until you find the proper "max" for that person/device.
This to me is the optimal method to use Emby.

Basically tune each client setting to your server.

[ng4ever 40]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

All you can do is try but sustain high bitrate items were never meant for network they were designed for HDMI.  So the odd of High bitrate items transmitted across the internet will be questionable.  I will not say not possible as ever route can be different with every connection.

 

2 minutes ago, cayars said:

With 1GB upload, sure you could try setting each client at max settings. (this is my setup).

Then if any particular friend or device can't handle the max settings try each lower setting until you find the proper "max" for that person/device.
This to me is the optimal method to use Emby.

Basically tune each client setting to your server.

 

Thank you both!

[ng4ever 40]

I had to go down to 12 Mbps for my nephew.

Think his DSL or ADSL/copper old line sucks

Either that or he can't direct play with the integrated roku tv player of the tv specs not being powerful enough. Thankfully I have a lot of spare Roku's maybe one of them will help if powerful enough. If he wants to switch to one. Maybe not sense the remote controls everything right now.

[ng4ever 40]

Weird part sorry is it did say direct streaming for the movies he tried but it would always get stuck at retrieving I believe

That or play, stop, play, stop.

 

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by ng4ever

[Painkiller88 250]

just set a server side limit as i told you above (8 or 10MBit per stream/user)

Set the clients app a bit higher than the limit and they will get the full speed you limited them if their bandwidth is good enough but as you see, some of your users have poor downspeed so set a limit and don't try to give them 120MBit to stream.