Disable "Reducing bitrate due to quality setting"

[Jay1911 7]

I'm seeing this a lot when I'm looking at my dashboard.   Right now I have a users with the following:

I'd really like to stop this from happening.  The Audio transcoding I don't mind, but I have video transcoding disabled so I don't understand why users are able to reduce the quality.   I don't have a GPU and it's maxing out the CPU on my machine which is why I have transcoding disabled.  Here is settings from the user in question:

 

[GrimReaper 4740]

Hm, I knew I've seen a similar topic recently, took me a minute to find it. Have a read here, it appears that's just incorrect labeling. 

You can also post ffmpeg log written for that session, though. 

[Jay1911 7]

26 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Hm, I knew I've seen a similar topic recently, took me a minute to find it. Have a read here, it appears that's just incorrect labeling. 

You can also post ffmpeg log written for that session, though. 

that does seem to be similar but I cant imagine that this is the case for my issue...  I can see it transcoding (red bar under the progress bar) and more importantly I can see the high cpu usage from an ffmpeg process.

I can also intentionally replicate this behavior by setting the internet quality on my own firestick to a low setting even though I have video transcoding disabled on my account.

Here is dashboard with my "internet quality" on the client set to "1mbps" (as an aside, the same thing happens if I set it to "Auto" but could be any random bitrate pretty much).  I let it transcode for a couple of seconds before I took the screenshot so that you can see that its actually building up a buffer

Here is the exact same client device and the exact same video file with the client internet quality manually set to the maximum of "4K - 200Mbps":

In the case of the first one - when I hit play on my device I see a process in htop jump right to the top of the list using 70%+ CPU that looks like this:

in the case of the second one with direct play, i dont see this process and the emby server is just chillin as usual at just a few % usage.

Something is definitely happening when I set my internet quality down lower or when I set it to Auto and I have video transcoding disabled on that account so I'm not sure what It's doing.

Log attached in case it helps.  (The movie I used for testing is called "The Deliverance" if that is useful for locating it in the log. should all be within 10-15 minutes of end of log).

embyserver(40).txt

Edited November 3, 2024 by Jay1911
attached log that includes my testing.

[GrimReaper 4740]

33 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

You can also post ffmpeg log written for that session

 

[Jay1911 7]

9 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

 

attached, i believe this is the right one

 

ffmpeg-remux-21104598-db4f-410f-97be-f81902266daf_1.txt

[GrimReaper 4740]

That's a remux log, there was no video transcoding occurring - video stream was copied, only audio conversion. 

Quote

23:55:28.033   Stream #0:0(eng): Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], Level 150, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 1k tbn (default) (original) (forced)

23:55:28.033   Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 768 kb/s (default) (forced)

23:55:28.035 Stream mapping:

23:55:28.035   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)

23:55:28.035   Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (eac3 (native) -> ac3 (native))

 

[EmYaj 25]

1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

That's a remux log, there was no video transcoding occurring - video stream was copied, only audio conversion. 

 

Okay I guess that's good and brings us back to it just being a labeling issue with what is being displayed in the dashboard like in the other thread you linked.

 

Sounds like they're working on it. Thank you for the help! Makes me feel better.

[Carlo 4561]

On 11/2/2024 at 11:22 PM, Jay1911 said:

Don't look at the stream but at the Video description: Direct Play.
This transcoded the audio, kept video as is, but packaged it as HLS which is a streaming protocol.