Emby Docker music play runs slowly

[mamanizhenhao 1]

I have a high-performance server with 64 cores and 64GB of memory, which is only running Debian and Docker.

I use Emby to manage my media files. There are many music files and some movies.

I'm having trouble playing audio.

In version 4.8.11.0, although there were some minor bugs, playback and display functions worked perfectly. There was no noticeable lag, waiting, or display issues.These problems occurred when I upgraded to version 4.9.X.

Specifically, when I quickly skip tracks, there's a long wait. During this wait, there's a chance the music will play normally, but there's also a high probability the program will freeze and I can't stop playing.

I've tried many solutions to this problem, even suspecting a reverse proxy (Nginx). Therefore, I specifically created a fresh install of Emby for testing; without a reverse proxy, with SSL disabled, and playing directly from the webpage. I found that when the version is 4.9 or higher, during the buffering phase, it always waits to send a JSON file to http://host:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing, which contains information such as the current playback status. Once the server successfully responds to this file, everything runs smoothly again. During this file transfer anomaly, even the album art wouldn't display.

Video transmission doesn't have this problem, which is interesting.

The attached file is a screen recording of the issue I encountered while testing Emby. I hope it can help you locate the problem.

The log file contains screen recording test content.

Please feel free to leave a message if you need anything else, and I will do my best to help you.

My time zone is UTC+8.

embyserver.txt

[mamanizhenhao 1]

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that I've been a Lifetime Emby Premiere user for a long time.

[mamanizhenhao 1]

2 hours ago, mamanizhenhao said:

I have a high-performance server with 64 cores and 64GB of memory, which is only running Debian and Docker.

I use Emby to manage my media files. There are many music files and some movies.

I'm having trouble playing audio.

In version 4.8.11.0, although there were some minor bugs, playback and display functions worked perfectly. There was no noticeable lag, waiting, or display issues.These problems occurred when I upgraded to version 4.9.X.

Specifically, when I quickly skip tracks, there's a long wait. During this wait, there's a chance the music will play normally, but there's also a high probability the program will freeze and I can't stop playing.

I've tried many solutions to this problem, even suspecting a reverse proxy (Nginx). Therefore, I specifically created a fresh install of Emby for testing; without a reverse proxy, with SSL disabled, and playing directly from the webpage. I found that when the version is 4.9 or higher, during the buffering phase, it always waits to send a JSON file to http://host:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing, which contains information such as the current playback status. Once the server successfully responds to this file, everything runs smoothly again. During this file transfer anomaly, even the album art wouldn't display.

Video transmission doesn't have this problem, which is interesting.

The attached file is a screen recording of the issue I encountered while testing Emby. I hope it can help you locate the problem.

The log file contains screen recording test content.

Please feel free to leave a message if you need anything else, and I will do my best to help you.

My time zone is UTC+8.

embyserver.txtUnavailable

I'm very sorry, but for privacy reasons, I deleted the above file and retested it. The file is below. Debug mode is enabled.

embyserver-63917952893.txt

[Luke 42652]

Hi, does this issue correlate at all with the size of the play queue?

[Luke 42652]

Or perhaps when it is playing with server transcoding? Can you try and test these two conditions separately to see if it happens more frequently with one or the other?