Buffered playback in browsers?

[danergo 37]

Hi!

I have came across to an old issue which might have some updates.

Let's say I have a movie with average 18Mbps rate and my network can upload at 24Mbps, so I'm good to go? Not necessarily:

 

Movies are usually not-CBR encoded, so a movie with an average of 18Mbps can easily go above my upload threshold.

When playing back this movie in the browser, Emby doesn't try buffering at all, so whenever is having a lower bitrate part in the movie it just relaxes the connection down.

Then when comes the action part, it pauses and waits while my upload threshold can send enough data to continue.

Yes, Emby might have some buffering during web playback, but can I somehow raise that?

With that raised, Emby can prepare itself for higher bitrate parts during lower ones making the viewing experience perfect.

What do you think?

 

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, yep that's the "devil" of variable bitrate encoding.
Unfortunately there is no way to increase the buffer being used in the browser.

The only "cure" for this is to set a bitrate limit that works with your connection speed so files like this close to the edge would get transcoded vs direct played/streamed.
Obviously avoiding the use of a browser and using Theater for example on a PC if you have Emby Premiere is likely better yet.

[danergo 37]

Yepp, Theatre has no issues with this, it prebuffers and plays seamlessly.