ffmpeg suggestions

[ellnic 26]

Hi all!

 

I'm up and running with Emby on my new box thanks to the new download instructions, but I have noticed something odd related to ffmpeg.

 

I noticed some weird ffmpeg issues on my old box, but didn't have time to post.

 

Box:

 

Debian 7

Xeon E5-2695v3

32GB DDR4 ECC

ASRock X99 WS

 

Symptoms:

 

- Videos/Music slow to start

- High CPU use when they do

- Inability to skip ANY videos in ANY format (can skip with Plex so I know it's not the format)

 

 

This is what htop shows...

 

 

Pretty odd considering there are no videos playing at all, although that's probably the amount of times I have unsuccessfully tried to play a video.

 

Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?

 

When installing the Emby Theatre app, I couldn't get anything to play at all until installing the CCCP - am I missing something similar for Emby server?

 

I use OpenMediaVault so I am tied to Debian 7 at the moment.

 

Thanks

 

Edit: Just managed to get a film to skip forward, then it froze :-/

 

Edit2: I think I may have found out why... it seems to only do it when the movie was contained in a folder it was scanning. Now the folder in question has finished its initial scan (although artwork is still being pulled in), it's playing and skipping properly and all the ffmpeg processes have gone...

 

Not sure if this is strictly a bug, but pretty sure it shouldn't happen?

Edited June 8, 2015 by ellnic

[ellnic 26]

I was hoping that changing the drive that the temporary transcoding may fix this issue, but I am unable to change it from the web interface...

 

 

Where do I manually edit this?

[geaves 13]

I was hoping that changing the drive that the temporary transcoding may fix this issue, but I am unable to change it from the web interface...

 

 

Where do I manually edit this?

 

Isn't that message due to the folder not existing, + you have to change the permissions of the folder to allow write access for transcoding, this is just a shot in the dark as I have left mine as is.

[ellnic 26]

The folder was created before hand then selected by clicking the magnifying glass and browsing to it, so I don't think it's that.

 

It could be a permissions issue, but I chowned recursively the entire folder where all the media is so its owned by the Emby user account. The folder I selected is a sub folder of that. I'll double check when I get back later and post results.

Edited June 9, 2015 by ellnic

[slingky 0]

ellnic, try that

 

select an episode or movie

click edit

in metadata editor, click refresh then save

 

after that, media info is there and it seems seek/skip/forward is backed and enabled

[Jackrats 4]

slingky, what version of Emby server? I again suspect the ffmpeg/ffprobe spawning issue which was fixed in 3.0.5607.

[ellnic 26]

I haven't had time to check on my end yet as I got in really late last night. I'm using whatever version is hosted on the Suse servers that's recently been updated on the downloads page.

 

I'll definitely get the time later today to test so I'll be able to confirm version and if the metadata refresh fixes it.

[ellnic 26]

Sorry it's taken me a while to post back.

 

I am running server version: 3.0.5621.4.

 

Refreshing the metadata does help for those it didn't get.

 

For me, it looks like the ffmpeg issue is present in this version, but only if the metadata is not present/it is scanning and I try to play one of the files it doesn't have yet.

[ellnic 26]

I've been playing around with this a bit more and it looks like removing the Media folder and adding it again seemed to solve the problem. It added the second time around much quicker (presumably because all the artwork and metadata was already in the folders) and once completely added, there were no playback/ffmpeg issues.

 

Can one of the mods remove serious from the title as waiting until the library is completely processed appears to be a work around.

Edited June 12, 2015 by ellnic

[Luke 42077]

great, thanks!