Transcoding not working after upgrade to 4.8.xx.

[js28194 36]

1 hour ago, adrianwi said:

Don't upgrade an OS that went EOL in January 2020 in February 2025 with one that goes EOL in October 2025 

It's this attitude that creates some much waste.  You do know the US Gov still runs COBOL.  Sometimes some shit just works, maybe not very well, but upgrading to the latest and greatest creates more problems.  Who's hacking WIN7 when the the low hanging fruit now is WIN11, iOS and Android.  Low Hanging Fruit.

[Clackdor 109]

42 minutes ago, js28194 said:

It's this attitude that creates some much waste.  You do know the US Gov still runs COBOL.  Sometimes some shit just works, maybe not very well, but upgrading to the latest and greatest creates more problems.  Who's hacking WIN7 when the the low hanging fruit now is WIN11, iOS and Android.  Low Hanging Fruit.

Governments and companies often keep legacy hardware and software in place due to there being no viable alternative whatsoever or migration being extremely cost prohibitive (anywhere between tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars and far beyond) to migrate to something else.

Average people running an outdated OS, especially any unsupported version of windows are creating some of the lowest hanging fruit out there if those systems are not properly isolated. 

If you're so confident that nobody is hacking windows 7 systems anymore why not just put it out on the open internet with no NAT or firewall? I'm sure nothing bad will happen. /s

In all seriousness if you care about keeping perfectly fine legacy hardware running then either use an OS and software that receives security updates or find a use for it that requires limited/no network connectivity and keep it as isolated as possible from anything else.

[pwhodges 2012]

Legacy hardware or even OS is fine for continuing to run legacy software; but at some point it will no longer cope with updates - you seem to have reached this point...

Paul.

[yocker 1248]

Just had a similar problem with a test computer that i had set up.

Turns out hardware encoders disappear if you remote desktop into the computer with the  Emby server.

[js28194 36]

14 hours ago, yocker said:

Just had a similar problem with a test computer that i had set up.

Turns out hardware encoders disappear if you remote desktop into the computer with the  Emby server.

So that's whats happening?  I think that is what I am experiencing also.   Is this considered a bug?  Everytime I RDP into my now (Windows 10 machine) these items uncheck themselves.

 

[js28194 36]

Some additional troubleshooting, I noticed these boxes uncheck themselves when using native RDP client in windows.  These boxes remain checked if i use nRemoteng RDP client.  Now just waiting on somebody to play something so I can look at transcoding logs.

[ebr 16177]

Hi.  I believe the RDP "trickery" is fooling our hardware detection routines.

@softworkz

[Happy2Play 9780]

Not sure if this will help or not but could be related.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Hwa-Fails-with-RDP.html

[Neminem 1518]

I have used HDMI or DP dummy plugs to get around that, in the past.

When running my server headless ( No monitor connected )

Also VNC, AnyDesk, Teamviewer also work without a dummy plug.

[yocker 1248]

2 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Not sure if this will help or not but could be related.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Hwa-Fails-with-RDP.html

I was just about to write how it looks like remote desktop takes over any hardware acceleration to encode into a video format it self.

[yocker 1248]

2 minutes ago, Neminem said:

I have used HDMI or DP dummy plugs to get around that, in the past.

When running my server headless ( No monitor connected )

Also VNC, AnyDesk, Teamviewer also work without a dummy plug.

I had have a monitor connected to my test computer and it still happens when using remote desktop.
Does it differ between GPUs?

[Neminem 1518]

13 minutes ago, yocker said:

Does it differ between GPUs?

Not to my knowledge.

I used iGPU back then on my NUC server with a DP dummy plug.

[Neminem 1518]

@yockerOut of curiosity.

Is you test system with 1 or 2 gpu's ?

[js28194 36]

Back on topic, it appears all my issues have been resolved.  I cannot tell you if was just the OS upgrade, Nvidia driver upgrades (nvidia wouldn't update because even Win 10 OS wasn't supported, so it required more windows updates) or the RDP.  I have not modified RDP yet as I am using nRemoteNg now which doesn't require mucking in group policy settings.

Thank you everyone for your help.

[yocker 1248]

53 minutes ago, Neminem said:

@yockerOut of curiosity.

Is you test system with 1 or 2 gpu's ?

Only one, atm. it's an AMD system with an Intel Arc GPU.

[Neminem 1518]

Was wondering if it had 2 gpus and you had the monitor plugged into the 1 not used in emby.

But thats a discussion for another time

[softworkz 5066]

3 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Not sure if this will help or not but could be related.

https://emby.media/support/articles/Hwa-Fails-with-RDP.html

Guys, did you try this?
(needs restart of your machine)

[yocker 1248]

1 hour ago, softworkz said:

Guys, did you try this?
(needs restart of your machine)

Will try it tonight when i got some time for it.

[yocker 1248]

3 hours ago, softworkz said:

Guys, did you try this?
(needs restart of your machine)

That indeed seems to do the trick.

[Brudertac 18]

On 2/5/2025 at 5:22 PM, js28194 said:

Trying to understand what is going on.  I stayed on 4.7.xx for a long time due to a transcoding issue and it seems everything was working fine.  Now that I have upgraded to 4.18.10 CPU usage has spiked.  It used be less than 1%.  I just noticed this on a remote user.  Feedback an input is welcomed.

 

 

Guys, where is this fancy Transcoding Screen? I could not find it 

Thanks!

Edited April 25, 2025 by Brudertac

[Lessaj 467]

25 minutes ago, Brudertac said:

Guys, where is this fancy Transcoding Screen? I could not find it 

Thanks!

Install the Diagnostics Plugin and it'll be under User Sessions.

[Brudertac 18]

7 minutes ago, Lessaj said:

Install the Diagnostics Plugin and it'll be under User Sessions.

Thank you so much