why is the video being touched by Emby server?

[horstepipe 430]

Hello

I am wondering why Emby thinks to touch / transmux this video, what exactly is happening here? I set an automatic remote streaming quality for that user.

Does this mean that the user changed the value from automatic to something else?

BR

 

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Edited August 13 by horstepipe

[Luke 43050]

Hi, doesn’t your second screenshot explain it?

[horstepipe 430]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, doesn’t your second screenshot explain it?

But why should it do that? The user is not allowed to transcode to a lower Bitrate, so why does the server transmux to hls (and seems to show a wrong info in UI)?

[Luke 43050]

The quality setting can still trigger that. You have to take away all conversion permissions if that’s  what you want .

[horstepipe 430]

I see.

but why is that needed / useful? 
So if a user tries to request a movie in lower quality but isn’t allowed to, why does he get a hls stream instead of the original one in same quality?

If I disable conversion at all then playback will break on items which really need it.

So from my understanding the file should just direct play.

 

 

[pünktchen 1420]

The value of "Automatische Remote-Streaming-Qualität" will only be used if the app is set to streaming quality (auto), which is the default setting for a new app installation. But the app users are still allowed to choose any other quality setting if they like to.

[Luke 43050]

36 minutes ago, horstepipe said:

I see.

but why is that needed / useful? 
So if a user tries to request a movie in lower quality but isn’t allowed to, why does he get a hls stream instead of the original one in same quality?

If I disable conversion at all then playback will break on items which really need it.

So from my understanding the file should just direct play.

 

 

sometimes the bitrate can still be lowered via audio

[seanbuff 1406]

2 minutes ago, pünktchen said:

The value of "Automatische Remote-Streaming-Qualität" will only be used if the app is set to streaming quality (auto), which is the default setting for a new app installation. But the app users are still allowed to choose any other quality setting if they like to.

The feature is also not yet supported in the Samsung app according to Luke.

[Luke 43050]

Actually Samsung just launched our app update for 2024 devices and newer. For older devices the update is still in testing.