Live TV Freezing

[ShadowKindjal 21]

My mother is having issues with her live tv stream constantly buffering on her Google Chromecast with remote. I've attached the associated logs for the stream. Is there something happening on the server end or is it client-related? Streaming from her laptop doesn't seem to freeze. Only seems to freeze on chromecast.

ffmpeg-directstream-01e57efc-9545-4ec4-ba5e-e0a24086e633_1.txt embyserver.txt

[Luke 42077]

HI, I would have her try lowering the in-app quality setting and see if that helps.

[ShadowKindjal 21]

I'm wondering if this has something to do with it. FFMPEG seems to be maxing out my CPU instead of utilizing my GPU for transcoding if I'm reading this correctly and I can't figure out why. 

I've attached my server log and the ffmpeg logs for two of the streams I saw in htop.

ffmpeg-transcode-7eb61c9a-5968-4f11-a3d3-b41eb1299360_1.txt ffmpeg-transcode-e57a75d7-3a5c-4ffa-ac56-df522805ba21_1.txt embyserver-1.2.24.txt

[Luke 42077]

7 minutes ago, ShadowKindjal said:

I'm wondering if this has something to do with it. FFMPEG seems to be maxing out my CPU instead of utilizing my GPU for transcoding if I'm reading this correctly and I can't figure out why. 

I've attached my server log and the ffmpeg logs for two of the streams I saw in htop.

ffmpeg-transcode-7eb61c9a-5968-4f11-a3d3-b41eb1299360_1.txt 272.83 kB · 0 downloads ffmpeg-transcode-e57a75d7-3a5c-4ffa-ac56-df522805ba21_1.txt 889.67 kB · 0 downloads embyserver-1.2.24.txt 6.5 MB · 0 downloads

The attached ffmpeg logs are from a video file, not live tv.

[ShadowKindjal 21]

I forgot that the original issue was live tv specific. She has admitted it happens for both live tv and regular tv. I probably should have made this a new post.

 

[ShadowKindjal 21]

It seems like items are software transcoding instead of hardware transcoding if I'm reviewing this correctly.

[Luke 42077]

Currently those do not display the reason for that, but the ffmpeg log may shed some light on that.

For starters, burning in subtitles in the first example is probably the reason.

[ShadowKindjal 21]

The ffmpeg-transcode-7eb61c9a log from the first post corresponds with the Harry Potter example I shared from my dashboard

 

[Luke 42077]

38 minutes ago, ShadowKindjal said:

The ffmpeg-transcode-7eb61c9a log from the first post corresponds with the Harry Potter example I shared from my dashboard

 

OK i think this may be resolved in the upcoming 4.8 server release. Thanks.