Existing transcoded video should be discarded when remote playback bitrate is changed

[gu5gus 1]

Problem:
When changing the remote (cellular) playback bitrate while in the middle of watching a video, the video that has already been transcoded at the previous bitrate continues to play, not respecting the new bitrate setting. The expected behavior is for the video transcoded at the previous bitrate be discarded and transcoding at the new bitrate to begin immediately. It should behave in this way when either of the different playback birate settings (home streaming quality, remote quality, remote (cellular) quality, and Chromecast quality) no longer match the transcoded stream's bitrate.

Steps to reproduce:

1. From an Emby client, begin to play a video - make sure that you are not using Direct Play. Let it play for several minutes at least to allow the transcoding to develop a significant cache of transcoded video. 
2. From this Emby client, go into settings and change playback bitrate for the type of stream that you are using (home, remote, remote (cellular), Chromecast). I see this when reducing the bitrate on remote (cellular) stream but I assume it works the same way for all of these streaming categories. 
3. Go back and resume playing that video. Observe that the bitrate has not changed. Instead it is continuing to use the video that had already been transcoded for this stream, which is at the previous bitrate.  

 

Please let me know if you would like logs.

Edited 1 hour ago by gu5gus

[GrimReaper 5001]

5 minutes ago, gu5gus said:

Please let me know if you would like logs

Yes, with specific example, not in general terms. 

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