Live TV pixelation freakout

[chizz44 9]

I'm a faithful longtime user of Emby and have run it on various flavors of Linux and hardware over the years. I recently began experiencing a problem with periodic buffering\pixelation while watching Live TV. I recently stood up Proxmox server and was running Emby in an LXC without hardware acceleration, so I thought that might have been the issue. I have now stood up a BOSGAME B100 Mini PC with Ubuntu Server running nothing but Emby.

I have hardware acceleration now using QuickSync (I unchecked VAAPI Alder Lake - N UHD Graphics in Transcoding\Advanced) and while the performance feels snappier and smoother overall, I still have this weird problem with Live TV. At or around the top of the hour, mostly at night, the Live TV stream will freakout and devolve into a pixelated laggy mess. If I back out of the channel and return, it plays fine. 

I have 1GB throughout my LAN. I am viewing TV through an Nvidia Shield attached to my TV. Attached is my log file, taken shortly after it happened this evening.

 

embyserver_LIVE_TV_FREAKOUT_657PM.txt

[chizz44 9]

Pleased to report that turning off "Direct Play Live TV" in the client settings appears to have resolved this issue. I'll report back if that doesn't hold up.

[chizz44 9]

SOLVED - I was still using the Emby for Android TV app, once I switched to the Emby for Android app, all playback problems for Live TV went away.