Converting for Quality?

[Dizzy49 99]

I was watching an anime the other day on my PC (Emby Theater), and it was choppy and looked like crap.  I checked the server, and it said it was being transcoded due to quality settings.

It's the first I've seen it on my account.  I saw it on my daughter's account the other day too.  I didn't think I had any kind of limits on either of the accounts

[Luke 42085]

HI, is there a question that you have?

[Dizzy49 99]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, is there a question that you have?

Yeah, why is it transcoding when it should be doing Direct Play?  If there are settings where would they be?

[seanbuff 1318]

22 minutes ago, Dizzy49 said:

I didn't think I had any kind of limits on either of the accounts

If you don't have any explicit limits set on your users streaming bitrate option, then check your 'User > Playback > Video' settings:
(You can check this within Emby Theater itself)

If they are set to Auto, sometimes clients can be a little on the conservative side. Depending on if you're remote or local streaming, try setting this dropdown to one of the highest quality settings and try again.

[Dizzy49 99]

On the server it's set to 4k 160mbps, in Emby Theater it was Auto, so I set it to the 4k 160 as well.  I'll keep an eye on it.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Yes playback quality is a per client setting.