Is deinterlacing necessary on LiveTV?

[taker1988 21]

Hey,

when im watching a channel with 720p, than emby does "direct play" the stream. But if I am streaming a 1080i channel, Emby starts to transcode it cause deinterlacing.

I am using the Embyapp on my ShieldTV Pro 2019...I set it up, that it should direct play a channel and also i checked the "copy stream" option. But it seems that those options getting ignored.

Am I doing something wrong? I dont want to use transcoding when I am watching TV. Not on local network and not when I am not at home.

(But if I am watching a Movie, e.g. a 4k-Movie with Atmos sound, than i want to transcode when I am not at home)

 

PS: When I am watching a UHD channel with "p" not "i", it shows me HEVC and EAC3 5.1 Sound...Than both are transcoding. Is this also normal?

 

Is this possible? Or do I get those transcoding options wrong?

 

 

[Sammy 790]

Android TV devices don't play interlaced content so Emby Server Transcodes it to progressive.

[taker1988 21]

Ahhh okey. Thank you.

[aja07 20]

Initially I had left my TV streaming on interlaced and was getting issues with sound/picture synch and could also not scan backwards w/out losing the buffer.

This frustrated the hell out of me until one day I set all TV interlaced TV and recorded TV to deinterlace and all my problems went away.

[Spaceboy 2573]

10 hours ago, Sammy said:

Android TV devices don't play interlaced content so Emby Server Transcodes it to progressive.

this statement is not true on a global level, may be true for your live tv, but is not true for all regions / sources. android tv plays this back fine without transcoding for me.

[ebr 16178]

Hi.  There are additional options in the playback settings in the app for whether or not to de-interlace on the server.  You can try these but how well it works will depend on your display.

[taker1988 21]

Ok, thank you. I understand it all now and I will test it.

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[taker1988 21]

I didnt have time yet. I will answer asap.

[taker1988 21]

Now I had time to test it!

And it is working. I switched to Live-TV, went to options there and I disabled the transcoding for sd- and hd-content. Now it direct plays all channels without transcoding.