Hardware Acceleration Question - Nvidia

[legierk 8]

My Emby Server has a Nvidia 1050ti. I have Hardware Acceleration turned on (defaults). I was watching a HEVC (is this x265?) movie and it was jerky. What settings should I look for to alleviate this? I have quality set to the highest (which for 1080p video is showing 60mbs). Finally, if I upgrade to a faster/modern GPU, will this help with an issue like this? For example, going from a Compute Capability of 6.1 to a 8.9 (4060ti). Does this play a part in the ability to decode quicker/faster/smoother? Do you still recommend Nvidia over AMD or Intel GPUs? I'm a newbie kinda so go easy. I could maybe do a log, but not sure exactly how....

[Lessaj 467]

HEVC would be h265 yes, but without the transcode log there's no way to know what the transcode speed was. A 1050 Ti should be sufficient for several streams at the same time, even a couple 4K at the same time shouldn't be a problem. What device were you playing back on? What client application?

[legierk 8]

Thank you for the reply. I am playing back on a Roku (brand) TV, wired connection, using the Emby App. I played the same movie file on my PC (that I'm using now), and it was smooth. 

There was a setting on the TV Emby app that says something to the effect of "We noticed you use a Roku TV. You may have trouble playing back HEVC files at 60hz." Then gives a Yes or No option. It was on Yes, then I switched it to no and there was no change. I did not reboot the Emby app though, so not sure if the change would've taken effect. Not even sure that was the issue, but the choppiness of the video looked like dropped frames to me.

[legierk 8]

So here is a log when I started the movie. I am not sure how to get it to begin logging the transcoding while the movie is playing.

hardware_detection-63852946199.txt

[Lessaj 467]

That log is unfortunately not the most useful since it's only the hardware detection. That stream is only transcoding the audio which is a very lightweight operation so this shouldn't be transcoding related. I'm not familiar with Roku if there's any settings related to playback, if it advertises support for HEVC it should be able to handle a 2 Mbps stream...