Ignore direct play force transcoding?

[ITGuy1024 18]

Hey all - is it possible to always force transcoding and ignore direct play? Specifically on the auto playback quality setting?
Here is the issue I'm having. For example I was watching LOTR and it was direct playing. Well the picture and sound were terrible. Playback quality set to auto.
I changed the playback quality to something else, I don't remember exactly what. But transcoding started and enabled the HDR mapping. Picture looked awesome and sound was great after that.

This happens somewhat often and I'll just adjust the playback quality from auto to something random the remote lands on.

I could change the playback quality in the app to something specific but then that is either too high or too low for something else I want to watch. 

Feels like every time I want to watch something I need to adjust the quality settings.

This happens in browser, on a tablet and on my Roku 4k.

[Happy2Play 9781]

I will assume you are talking about HDR content on non-HDR systems.

But no there is no way to always transcode unless you set each client to a quality lower than your media bitrate.

[speechles 2055]

On the Roku during playback press down to open the OSD. On the OSD navigate to the cog/gear and press OK on it. On the playback settings menu that opens choose "Attempt Playback Correction" and do this twice. That will enable you to force transcoding without having to adjust quality. If the item is shown as Direct playing then the first time you do this it will Remux or Direct stream. The second time you do this it will Transcode.

Edited February 6, 2024 by speechles

[solidsnakex37 55]

26 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

But no there is no way to always transcode unless you set each client to a quality lower than your media bitrate.

As of 4.8 this is no longer the case. You can force transcoding in Diagnostic Options. 

[ITGuy1024 18]

19 minutes ago, solidsnakex37 said:

As of 4.8 this is no longer the case. You can force transcoding in Diagnostic Options. 

Is this a plugin? - never mind I found it. Thanks will try.

Edited February 6, 2024 by ITGuy1024

[ITGuy1024 18]

23 minutes ago, speechles said:

On the Roku during playback press down to open the OSD. On the OSD navigate to the cog/gear and press OK on it. On the playback settings menu that opens choose "Attempt Playback Correction" and do this twice. That will enable you to force transcoding without having to adjust quality. If the item is shown as Direct playing then the first time you do this it will Remux or Direct stream. The second time you do this it will Transcode.

Yeah  but still requires some sort of interaction each time playing something.

[solidsnakex37 55]

2 minutes ago, ITGuy1024 said:

Is this a plugin?

I believe it is (been a while), it should be in the plugin catalog

[ITGuy1024 18]

1 minute ago, solidsnakex37 said:

I believe it is (been a while), it should be in the plugin catalog

Got it thanks. Will try this.

[Happy2Play 9781]

23 minutes ago, solidsnakex37 said:

As of 4.8 this is no longer the case. You can force transcoding in Diagnostic Options. 

True, but as the note says these are temporary testing options.

Those options are intended to help investigating problems and should only be set when requested by Emby staff.
None of those are intended to fix a problem for regular Emby operation.
Settings made here will not be saved. They won't survive a server restart and might be automatically reset after some time.

 

[ITGuy1024 18]

Maybe related, maybe not. Maybe an issue with my laptop, maybe emby web.
Playing in chrome uses the UHD GPU and just crushes it. Is it normal to hit the client GPU so hard with playback?
 

[Happy2Play 9781]

14 minutes ago, ITGuy1024 said:

Maybe related, maybe not. Maybe an issue with my laptop, maybe emby web.
Playing in chrome uses the UHD GPU and just crushes it. Is it normal to hit the client GPU so hard with playback?
 

The image shows the server is transcoding the media in hardware so yes, I would say that is normal. 

But from a client standpoint no as the server is doing the transcoding so is the client and server the same machine?

 

[Neminem 1519]

Well from you screenshot you video is transcoding video and audio, on top of that tone mapping.

Have you set transcoding to throttle ?

[ITGuy1024 18]

10 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

The image shows the server is transcoding the media in hardware so yes, I would say that is normal. 

But from a client standpoint no as the server is doing the transcoding so is the client and server the same machine?

 

Server is a separate physical system.

[ITGuy1024 18]

9 minutes ago, jaycedk said:

Well from you screenshot you video is transcoding video and audio, on top of that tone mapping.

Have you set transcoding to throttle ?

I have no throttling in place.