Kodi vs emby DLNA x265 10bit issue

[dazoo 0]

So I have this weird issue on my emby server, and I don’t know if it’s settings related or emby just won’t do the job.

Whenever I try to stream from my Emby server via DLNA a let’s say 720p 10bit x265 movie on my TV it plays normal as long as I don’t try and forward it.

If I forward it, the movie crashes, saying file is not compatible. (non 10bit x265 work fine even at 1080p)

Strangely if I use libreelec as upnp server streaming the same movie, one the same hardware, via the exact same operation it seeks and plays flawlessly & I can even throw at it 1080p 10bit or 4k 10bit

Both configurations ran after clean install on Debian 11, with default settings.

Any suggestions?

Edited April 25, 2022 by dazoo

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, let's look at an example:

 

Thanks.

[dazoo 0]

Hey, I guess you need the logs to start with. Sorry about that! I hope I've attached the right ones, since they're too many.

My TV model is LG UP77003LB and my server is set up on a fujitsu futro S920 thin client with a CPU model AMD G-Series GX-415GA, 4GB ram & AMD Radeon HD 8330E onboard GPU.

I've formatted the disk and installed libreelec to act as a DLNA server to check if there would be any kind of hardware issue, or incompability with x265 codec with my TV, but as I originally mentioned there was no problem in playing/seeking, in 10bit x265 files. It even worked flawlessly for the same bitrate & codec at 720p, 1080p & even 4K resolution. (Always streaming using DLNA directly from my TV).

So after that, I clean installed Debian 11 again (headless) & emby server, but there was the same original problem. The file starts playing, but as soon as I try to seek forward it crashes. TV shows a message that quotes, "The file is not compatible, try to play next file?". Also higher resolutions like 1080p at 10bit x265 were a bit choppy.

I also tried to stream from emby DLNA server to a raspberry pi 3 that I have laying around, and it worked fine there.

Thank you for your time!

 

embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-d2b7dfd3-b5a0-4812-921d-33cd8faa106d_1.txt

Edited April 25, 2022 by dazoo
attaching latest logs when error occured

[Luke 42078]

Hi, so is this with LG's dlna app?

[dazoo 0]

Yes. I press the input menu on my TV, and select emby dlna server.

(Same procedure like testing with libreelec).

Edited April 25, 2022 by dazoo

[Luke 42078]

OK. for the next release we've added hevc to the direct play profiles for lg, so if it direct plays with that then I'm sure the experience will be much better.

[dazoo 0]

Oh, that's great news, since I was thinking of having to re-do almost my entire library, removing all 10bit files, since most of them are encoded like that.

I'll wait for a bit longer then!

I've also requested a feature before, and you mentioned that it would also be in the next version. That was using the friendly server name for announcing without the "Emby - " prefix. (Now for example emby dlna server is announced as "Emby - MyServer" and not as simple as "My Server". Is this still going to make it to the next release?

[Luke 42078]

Yes that has been changed as well.

[dazoo 0]

You're a star!

Thank you very much!