Live TV Transcodes unnecessarily to Roku

[dialdown 3]

Roku 4800X * HDHomeRun FLEX DUO  HDFX-2US * Emby 4.8.10 on Linux Fedora 41 * VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

The Roku app for HDHomerun plays directly no problem

The Roku Media Player streams TV no problem  

Obviously neither of those have a way of transcoding before the video stream gets to the Roku.

When I play Live TV that's 1080i it transcodes it, when it shouldn't.

If both the HDHomerun APP and the Roku Media App can stream directly from the HDHomerun without transcoding Emby should not need to either.  

 

embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-d68283c6-bcbc-4fd6-8f4b-b2097a055208_1.txt

[blckgrffn 1]

I am experiencing this too.  I was was getting really frustrated with my Roku TV and not being able to effectively skip ahead in a live broadcast that was being recorded that was in progress and I realized that it was the transcoding overhead that was making a big time skip perform terribly.

It also makes it take a lot longer to change channels, etc.

I am hosting on Windows, however.  W10/i5 6400/HD Homerun Flex 4k

Edited January 10, 2025 by blckgrffn

[Luke 42077]

Hi, we are working on improving this. Thanks for reporting.