Convert on the Fly - Recordings not Playable

[JDAbraham 0]

I have tried the Convert on the Fly option on two different Windows servers.  In one case, I record to a WDMyCloud share on my network.  In the other case, I record to an attached USB hard drive.

 

In both cases, when I attempt to play back the resulting mp4 files I get variations of "unable to play" "not playable" etc depending on the playback device.  I've tried 6 times in total now.

 

Does this feature only work with a local (and non USB) hard drive used for recording?

 

Any other known limitations that have to be accounted for?

[Luke 42083]

Hi, I have not seen this issue, although i can say the files won't be playable during recording in case that's when you're testing.

[JDAbraham 0]

No, not testing when they are recording.  I am not sure which log would be relevant, but I can send something.  One where I tried to record a Sesame Street episode, and then another when I unsuccessfully tried to play it back several hours later.  I don't see how to attach a log though.

[ebr 16187]

I don't see how to attach a log though.

 

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[mellomade 141]

I have this exact problem too.  Resulting mp4 files have no stream metadata when viewed in MediaInfo.  They are also way off on resulting file size.  For a half hour show - I would expect the size to be somewhere around 1.5Gb.  Some files are 650Mb, some 700Mb.  It looks like something is failing in the transcoding.

 

Here is my server log and recording transcoding logs.  You can see there are 3 recordings total - one begins at 18:58, one at 19:28 and one at 19:58

 

Server Log

[mellomade 141]

Here is another example where the first recording worked but the second did not.  The recording that worked (Big Bang Theory) fired at 18:58 and the one that did not (Life in Pieces) fired at 19:28.

 

Server Log

[Luke 42083]

ok, thanks. I'm going to adjust the encoding a little so please report back with future dev builds.

[mmikiska 6]

I have the same issue and the associated log.  In my case, the recording made it 1.7Mbs and then stopped.  The next one went through to completion (I believe).  Both 30 minute shows, same channel, back to back.  The second of the two worked.  Just thought I'd add that in.

 

Log attached.

 

When you say you can't watch while it's being recorded, is that for MP4s or just Emby overall even if I don't go the MP4 route?

Failedtranscode.txt

[mmikiska 6]

OK, I've had it again, and again, and... well you get the idea.  It seems fairly random but the net is, it doesn't work.  My recordings previously were fine but these are failing about 50% of the time.  Did I somehow get the beta? 

[mellomade 141]

@@Luke

 

An interesting side note to the logs I posted above.  I use the auto organize feature to move the recordings from their default directory to my TV Shows library.  The files mentioned above in my TV library were broken - however when I went to delete them from the original recording directory I thought I would just quickly test the MP4s again.

 

They were all in tact.  So something must have gone wrong with the auto organize somehow.  I ran a manual organize and everything went fine.

 

*shrugs*