What does 'auto' quality do?

[podonnell 47]

Specifically, what is the difference from me setting the highest bitrate versus setting to auto?

1) Will auto test my bandwidth every time I launch a video?
2) How often does auto 'recalibrate' my available bandwidth and change quality?
3) Any other extra processing that goes on?

I have a gigabit ethernet going to my SHIELD, so I can run pretty much any bitrate video. However I found that when I manually set my bitrate on a low bitrate video, it changed it in another library, bringing it down from the maximum. For simplicity sake, I am considering switching to Auto, but wanted to check on the above first.

Thanks!

Edit: Bonus question as I didn't want to create an entire thread for this -- is there a place to see info on Emby updates? It seems the blog hasn't been updated in over a year and a half.

Edited August 20, 2024 by podonnell

[Happy2Play 9780]

Devs will have to comment on 1) as it is very conservative per many topics.

4 minutes ago, podonnell said:

2) How often does auto 'recalibrate' my available bandwidth and change quality?

As for 2 no there is no adaptive change once a stream has begun.

 

7 minutes ago, podonnell said:

Edit: Bonus question as I didn't want to create an entire thread for this -- is there a place to see info on Emby updates? It seems the blog hasn't been updated in over a year and a half.

Yes that was reported in another topic.  You have anouncements as they are usually mirrored.

As for server you have GitHub

Potentetial release note links in Latest Versions topic.

[podonnell 47]

4 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Devs will have to comment on 1) as it is very conservative per many topics.

As for 2 no there is no adaptive change once a stream has begun.

 

Yes that was reported in another topic.  You have anouncements as they are usually mirrored.

As for server you have GitHub

Potentetial release note links in Latest Versions topic.

Thank you.

So if someone had a network slowdown right when a video starts, they'd have to manually change it afterwards? On the same note, if suddenly bandwidth became more restricted while watching, the user would be faced with endless buffering unless they changed it themselves?

I do not expect these issues on gigabit but just curious.

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, podonnell said:

So if someone had a network slowdown right when a video starts, they'd have to manually change it afterwards? On the same note, if suddenly bandwidth became more restricted while watching, the user would be faced with endless buffering unless they changed it themselves?

Correct.  Or those that have limited upload speeds one user could take it all and leave really nothing for the next user.

But the adaptive streaming request is over here.

[podonnell 47]

22 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Correct.  Or those that have limited upload speeds one user could take it all and leave really nothing for the next user.

But the adaptive streaming request is over here.

Thanks. Outside of adaptive streaming, do you know if most users would leave this set to the maximum bandwidth possible to prevent any extra processing and ensure as many direct plays as possible? I think my only issue came in when I changed a low bitrate video and it applied that for all.

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, podonnell said:

Thanks. Outside of adaptive streaming, do you know if most users would leave this set to the maximum bandwidth possible to prevent any extra processing and ensure as many direct plays as possible? I think my only issue came in when I changed a low bitrate video and it applied that for all.

I have my remote users set client to max and throttle them per user streaming limits as Auto usually falls back to hard coded client limits.  But most stay on Auto and report issues here.

[yocker 1248]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

I have my remote users set client to max and throttle them per user streaming limits as Auto usually falls back to hard coded client limits.  But most stay on Auto and report issues here.

 Any plans on improving the auto setting? Like fx. detect buffer emptying and lower quality based on that and vice versa, if that's possible.

[bakes82 167]

Simple fix. Don’t have remote users as there will always be some kind of issue.  Also how long are going to wait for them to implement the auto buffering change thing?  There are much better features and changes that have been pending for like 5+ years.