Remote playback bitrate being ignored

[AlanBatie 5]

A friend and I were watching a bluray movie "together" - he was remote using the android app and I was local using a web browser on a mac. The server is a linux vm. Dashboard showed both running 37mbps - I was having no problems and he was getting a lot of buffering, probably because I'm on comcast with a 40mpbs upload limit. I went into playback and set "Chromecast" quality to 5mbps - since the only other option was "home network", I figured chromecast was an alias for "remote", but no, both streams were still 37mbps. I set both home and chromecast to 10mbps...and mine went to 10mbps but his stayed at 37?!? Puzzled...

Edited August 21, 2025 by AlanBatie
Make title more accurate

[Luke 42077]

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[AlanBatie 5]

These are the log files for when I gave it a try after increasing the cpus from 2 to 4 (though I knew it was bandwidth rather than cpu, it was using all of the 2 so I gave it some more). I believe I provided all the other details that link wants...

hardware_detection-63891326915.txtffmpeg-transcode-ad2dfe90-600d-4179-8abb-4d2615e04042_1.txtembyserver.txt

[Luke 42077]

Hi, chromecast is for actual chromecast devices. Is that what you're using?
 

Also are you able to update to Emby Server 4.8.11? 

[AlanBatie 5]

No; treating Chromecast as "remote" was just a guess and I wasn't terribly surprised it didn't work, but there really needs to be a "remote network" option

I may get a chance to update the server Sunday or next week

 

[Luke 42077]

58 minutes ago, AlanBatie said:

No; treating Chromecast as "remote" was just a guess and I wasn't terribly surprised it didn't work, but there really needs to be a "remote network" option

I may get a chance to update the server Sunday or next week

 

There is, right in the same place, but only when the server detects the app as being on a remote network.

Are you using a reverse proxy? Have you touched any of the emby server network settings?

[AlanBatie 5]

No, I'm local to the emby server and trying to manage it. My friends don't have permission to manage the server, but I guess that is in the user playback settings; I was thinking it was a server setting, but now I realize it was for my own playback. OK, I see there's a bitrate limit in the network section - I haven't been there since I setup the server, which was before I started letting friends connect, so I'll set that limit. That should solve my problem...

Edited August 22, 2025 by AlanBatie
had an epiphany