m3u8 quality selection not taking best available

[kingy444 117]

I am trying to add some m3u8 files to the IPTV plugin - adding works fine as does playback

The issue is (and taking a bit of assumption here) the quality of the stream begins at 480p and then upgrades to the best your connection can handle - EMBY appears to be checking the quality of the stream immediately as i have no way of selecting anything above '480p - 1 Mbs' 

I actually keep it on Auto most the time anyway, but what i am looking at here is for EMBY to be able to either force a certain quality, reanalyse the stream so that it is giving best quality etc

example stream https://i.mjh.nz/au/Canberra/tv.sky1rw.m3u8

you will see the stream opens small and then increases res when bandwidth is allocated

[Luke 42086]

Hi there, let's look at an example:

 

Thanks.

[kingy444 117]

 

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi there, let's look at an example:

 

Thanks.

I can post a log should you think that will help - this isn’t such a problem I expect to be in the logs - the stream is playing but the issue is that when you first start the stream for the first 1-3 seconds the stream is quite small and then resolution will increase shortly after that

 

Emby appears to determine the quality in the first connection to the stream but does not realise the quality got better after the initial connection

I have other streams which stay a higher quality and these function fine

 

please let me know if you need the log - this is an issue, but also falls into the enhancement category to correct how streams are treated

[Luke 42086]

Yes please thanks.

[kingy444 117]

13 hours ago, Luke said:

Yes please thanks.

found another forum post when i dropped the 8 off my search (m3u vs mru8)

looks like this issue is similiar to  the below and already under review