Problems reading music video clips with Samsung

[Tandhruil 26]

When reading music video on Samsung TV the image quality is poor. I thought it was the original recording but I played the same videos on a androidtv app and the video was clean. Looking at the logs it seems there is a problem playing the videos.

Samsung TQ55Q73D
MN : TQ55Q73DATXXC 
PD : 3/8/2025 
SN : 0LWY3HFY100335F 
FW : T-PTMLDDEUC-1301.0 
FC : SWU-OU_T-PTMLDDEUC_1301_241206

The Emby app is up to date

The video are copied with yt-dlp : yt-dlp.exe -P "D:\VIDEO\Clips" -f "bv[height<=720]+ba/b" --remux-video mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%1"

 

thanks

logs.zip

[SamES 1059]

We've had a lot of issue with Opus audio with mixed results, so we removed the support for Direct Playing opus audio.  This should be causing an audio conversion and HLS streaming, but the avi video format needs to be converted as it's not supported in HLS streaming, so it's falling back to a full transcode.

It also looks like there are issues converting the video format which is probably causing the quality issues.

Can you try disabling Hardware acceleration/decoders and test with software conversion?

Since you are already doing a conversion when you download, could you try also transcoding the audio to aac at the same time?

[Tandhruil 26]

Thank you for the answer. Effectively, I've no more ffmpeg logs with aac sound videos.

I tried different formats on the samsung tv and an android device and add the logs to this message :

1 webm container and AV1 + OPUS codecs

2 mp4 container and AV1 + OPUS codecs

3 mp4 container and H264 + AAC codex

For information, if the codec change but the file isn't update in the database, emby still believe its the previous codec and try to transcode it (4th test). Emby samsung client doesn't check the codecs of the file.

but it seems there is still troubles between emby an samsungTV device (see embyserver.txt logs of 06/03/2026)

If needed I can join the video files to

4tests.zip embyserver.txt