Weak CPU and GPU. Best configuration for playback?

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

Unfortunately, my graphics card is onboard and weak, and my processor is an i5. They were good 10 years ago, but now movies don't run smoothly anymore.

What is the best configuration I can set in Emby for this case?

Thank you

[RanmaCanada 494]

We need more information.  What model of i5 do you have.  How much ram, are you using a HDD or an SSD.  Are you a server or a client?

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

On 6/19/2023 at 7:09 PM, RanmaCanada said:

We need more information.  What model of i5 do you have.  How much ram, are you using a HDD or an SSD.  Are you a server or a client?

CPU Intel Core (TM) i5-4570 CPU 3.2 , Mother board Z87-D3HP, 8gb ram, SSD 120gb, GPU Intel® HD Graphics 4600. Im a server. And to play i am using a MPC player on Emby Theater for windows.

[RanmaCanada 494]

Well the easiest upgrade for you would be to a Quadro P400 as it's about $60 or lower and can do full hardware encoding and decoding of H265 10bit.  

If you feel this is not enough, then you would be looking at replacing the whole server with something modern, and switching your playback device to an android device instead of a PC, especially if you're playing it on the same system you are serving it from (do not know if you are or not).

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

On 6/22/2023 at 8:08 PM, RanmaCanada said:

Well the easiest upgrade for you would be to a Quadro P400 as it's about $60 or lower and can do full hardware encoding and decoding of H265 10bit.  

If you feel this is not enough, then you would be looking at replacing the whole server with something modern, and switching your playback device to an android device instead of a PC, especially if you're playing it on the same system you are serving it from (do not know if you are or not).

Thank you very much, Ranma. I don't use the server for gaming, only for storing movies and TV series. To play them, I have a Mistick, but since the Mistick doesn't support DTS-HD MA and TRUE-HD, I use Emby for Windows with external player support (I use MPC). I've considered the Nvidia Shield, but here in Brazil, it costs around US$500, which is very expensive. Regarding the P400, would I be able to play 4K Remux at 30mbps? Thanks again.

[RanmaCanada 494]

Yes you SHOULD be able to do 4k Remux as the video card does support 10bit HEVC encoding and decoding in hardware.  Click on the professional tab and search for P400.  It will show you what the card can do in hardware.  I think your only limitation would be if your PC is powerful enough to decode the audio.  You could also look at possibly getting a 4k MAX Firestick, though I am ignorant to as how expensive that would be in your country and I do apologize if it's stupidly so.

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

9 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

Yes you SHOULD be able to do 4k Remux as the video card does support 10bit HEVC encoding and decoding in hardware.  Click on the professional tab and search for P400.  It will show you what the card can do in hardware.  I think your only limitation would be if your PC is powerful enough to decode the audio.  You could also look at possibly getting a 4k MAX Firestick, though I am ignorant to as how expensive that would be in your country and I do apologize if it's stupidly so.

The Firestick also does not play DTS-HD MA and TrueHD formats.

"But I found out that the PC is running smoothly when I use the MPC player directly on this PC, without any issues. However, when the MPC is embedded within Emby, it freezes and the audio becomes out of sync. Could it be that I embedded the MPC incorrectly? Please take a look below and let me know if I did something foolish."

Please provide the code or instructions you used to embed MPC within Emby so that I can review it and provide feedback.

 

TY

 

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

On 6/25/2023 at 10:55 AM, Franklynsbr2023 said:

The Firestick also does not play DTS-HD MA and TrueHD formats.

"But I found out that the PC is running smoothly when I use the MPC player directly on this PC, without any issues. However, when the MPC is embedded within Emby, it freezes and the audio becomes out of sync. Could it be that I embedded the MPC incorrectly? Please take a look below and let me know if I did something foolish."

Please provide the code or instructions you used to embed MPC within Emby so that I can review it and provide feedback.

 

TY

 

Any ideia? Please help me.

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Franklynsbr2023 said:

Any ideia? Please help me.

Maybe just try the default {path} as the command line arguments.

Did you research what command line arguments MPC supports? What did you find?

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

13 hours ago, Luke said:

Maybe just try the default {path} as the command line arguments.

Did you research what command line arguments MPC supports? What did you find?

Filling in the command lines is exactly my doubt. I can look up the commands supported by MPC or VLC, but I wouldn't know how to fill them in Emby for Windows. For example, do I put the path in curly braces? And should ms and Seconds go inside or outside, or after the equal sign? I'm a beginner, and this filling is not clear to me. Is there any example of how to fill it in?

Thank you in advance

[Luke 42077]

Nothing goes into curly braces expect for the tokens that are mentioned in the help text.

As far as seconds before or after the equals sign, how does mpc want it?

 Start with the command line needed for mpc. You can just hardcode a video path. Then once you get that playing, then change the video path to {path}

[RanmaCanada 494]

On 25/06/2023 at 09:55, Franklynsbr2023 said:

The Firestick also does not play DTS-HD MA and TrueHD formats.

 

 

 

Unless you have a massive home theatre system this doesn't matter.  You can always play the compatibility track that is included in the remux, because even when you play it back on a system that does it support it, like your PC, it's still going to down mix it to stereo, as there are no PC speakers that support DTS-HDMA or TrueHD.  That's the sad truth that most people can't seem to grasp.

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

14 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

Unless you have a massive home theatre system this doesn't matter.  You can always play the compatibility track that is included in the remux, because even when you play it back on a system that does it support it, like your PC, it's still going to down mix it to stereo, as there are no PC speakers that support DTS-HDMA or TrueHD.  That's the sad truth that most people can't seem to grasp.

I'm not sure what you're saying because my PC is connected to my DENON via an HDMI cable, version 2.0b. When I play the movie with Atmos audio on Emby Theater for Windows, the Denon switches modes and indicates Atmos, as well as for DTS HD and True-HD. I don't believe the Denon is deceiving or misleading me. Or is it?

[RanmaCanada 494]

On 29/06/2023 at 16:20, Franklynsbr2023 said:

I'm not sure what you're saying because my PC is connected to my DENON via an HDMI cable, version 2.0b. When I play the movie with Atmos audio on Emby Theater for Windows, the Denon switches modes and indicates Atmos, as well as for DTS HD and True-HD. I don't believe the Denon is deceiving or misleading me. Or is it?

It's just very odd that you would have such a high end home theatre setup (8.2 audio and all that for full ATMOS) and a potato for a PC to play things on, that's all.  It's also very odd for you to have your PC hooked up to your home theatre as most of us moved forward to Android devices like the Shield when DV/HDR came out and playback was impossible on PC.  

My apologies for all misunderstandings on my part.

[Franklynsbr2023 4]

6 hours ago, RanmaCanada said:

It's just very odd that you would have such a high end home theatre setup (8.2 audio and all that for full ATMOS) and a potato for a PC to play things on, that's all.  It's also very odd for you to have your PC hooked up to your home theatre as most of us moved forward to Android devices like the Shield when DV/HDR came out and playback was impossible on PC.  

My apologies for all misunderstandings on my part.

Yes, you're right, but I don't think it's fair to pay $500 for the Shield here in Brazil when I already have a Xiaomi device that I bought for $70, and the only difference between them is in TrueHD and DTS-HD MA. And I can have these two audio formats playing through my PC, which also serves as my server. Unless there's a competitor to the Shield with 3GB of RAM and a 16GB hard drive that can play Netflix in 4K at half the price of the Shield (in Brazil), I would buy it. Do you know of any options similar to the Shield? Cheers.