HEVC is in Chromium/Chrome now?

[Chiefmas 40]

According to this https://bitmovin.com/google-adds-hevc-support-chrome/ and the bug report mentioned within verifying, it seems that Google slipped HEVC into Chrome at the end of last month. I noticed my HEVC streams are still transcoding. Will HEVC direct stream/play support to chromium browsers get added to Emby as a result? I figure there might be some backend work besides just adding it to the player profile, but it'd be awesome if it was a pretty minimal change.

I wouldn't have even known except by coincidence I was looking for something else and came across that. I haven't seen any other mention of it elsewhere so far.

Thanks!

 

[Luke 42085]

Hi, nothing should have to be added to emby as it already detects hevc support. Did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it was transcoding?

[visproduction 316]

It looks like you need to run Web receiver server side to allow x.285 HEVC streaming.  I think Chrome, on it's own, cannot do it.  It did not work when I sent a HEVC x285 video with AAC audio to base Chrome latest Windows 10 browser, with no video plugins.
See: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_receiver/basic

[Chiefmas 40]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, nothing should have to be added to emby as it already detects hevc support. Did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it was transcoding?

I'll dig further into it, and see. I just saw it was transcoding the hevc to h264 under Chrome, but I only looked in the user sessions.

 

[Chiefmas 40]

35 minutes ago, visproduction said:

It looks like you need to run Web receiver server side to allow x.285 HEVC streaming.  I think Chrome, on it's own, cannot do it.  It did not work when I sent a HEVC x285 video with AAC audio to base Chrome latest Windows 10 browser, with no video plugins.
See: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_receiver/basic

Well, from the article, it should be able to use DASH or HLS, I thought both of which were supported with other formats under Emby. But my detailed knowledge of streaming gets fuzzy at that detail level, so I wasn't sure what else was needed. I was under the impression that it should show up as a supported codec, and be streamable as a result. As I said though, my understanding of the particulars at this level is probably not sufficient.

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

I know items can direct play just fine with supported audio track.  So Subs or Audio track could cause full transcode.

test file

[Chiefmas 40]

28 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

I know items can direct play just fine with supported audio track.  So Subs or Audio track could cause full transcode.

Hmm- ok the audio track in what I was testing with isn't going to be supported. I thought that would only cause an audio transcode with a remux to the video though.

I'll find something else to test with- the change was so recent I wasn't actually aware it would start working. I'm actually more interested to see if downstream Chromium browsers(Brave) have added it or not yet.

Thanks!