Chromecast Ultra

[Luke 42079]

Has anyone tried it with Emby yet? I will soon be working on taking advantage of the new goodies that it offers such as 4K and HEVC. If you have a Chromecast Ultra, let us know what you think about it. Thanks !

[PhinkBig 9]

Has anyone tried it with Emby yet? I will soon be working on taking advantage of the new goodies that it offers such as 4K and HEVC. If you have a Chromecast Ultra, let us know what you think about it. Thanks !

 

Is Emby going to need to update to the new API (Link) in order to Cast in 4K? Or is this just for casting from an Android device? I'm considering ordering an Ultra, but waiting to see if the Shield can receive 4K casting.

[Luke 42079]

I think we can already do 4k, we just need to get hevc added.

[Luke 42079]

Sure try it out, thanks !

[pinkfloydhomer 1]

I also have a Chromecast Ultra and I am willing to test, if necessary.

 

Is there any progress on this? I'm especially interested in Emby _not_ transcoding HEVC and other formats that the Chromecast Ultra does natively.

[Luke 42079]

Hi yes please report your experience. Thanks.

[pinkfloydhomer 1]

Hi yes please report your experience. Thanks.

 

My experience is that when I play HEVC 1080p to Chromecast Ultra, I think it gets transcoded to H.264 and not played directly as HEVC. 

Where can I check that? 

What do you want me to do and what do you want me to send back? I don't know anything about where Emby is logging these things.

 

EDIT: I just played a 1080p HEVC to my Chromecast Ultra and I could see in the Emby dashboard that it was indeed transcoding to h264. 

I am willing to test any way needed.

Edited December 2, 2016 by pinkfloydhomer

[Stevendewith 0]

I have been using Emby on my chromecast ultra for the last week and so far it works great.

I have had to uncheck the transcoding options though. Direct play works great.

I can not get screen mirroring working at all though

Edited December 3, 2016 by Stevendewith

[Stevendewith 0]

264

265 8it and 10bit

4K and 1080p

All direct play perfectly on the ultra

 

Transcoding didn't seem to work great but that could be my server

[Luke 42079]

I have been using Emby on my chromecast ultra for the last week and so far it works great.

I have had to uncheck the transcoding options though. Direct play works great.

I can not get screen mirroring working at all though

 

Hi @@Stevendewith welcome! Thanks for the feedback. I just tested display mirroring and it seems to be working fine for me. Please note, all it does it display the same content on the screen. So for example, if you open a movie detail screen while connected to chromecast, the same movie will display on the CC device as well. Does that help? Thanks !

[Stevendewith 0]

Hi @@Stevendewith welcome! Thanks for the feedback. I just tested display mirroring and it seems to be working fine for me. Please note, all it does it display the same content on the screen. So for example, if you open a movie detail screen while connected to chromecast, the same movie will display on the CC device as well. Does that help? Thanks !

Thank you.

Yeah I have 2 chromecast ultras. Mirroring works on one tv and not the other. I'm not sure why.

Overall it works great. I use my iPad to cast from my server to my tvs. I was using xmbc for years but definitely prefe emby

Edited December 5, 2016 by Stevendewith

[pinkfloydhomer 1]

264

265 8it and 10bit

4K and 1080p

All direct play perfectly on the ultra

 

Transcoding didn't seem to work great but that could be my server

 

How can I see if it is transcoding or direct play?

 

EDIT: I just tried playing the same HEVC/x264 1080p on Chromecast Ultra, and it says in the dashboard that it is transcoding to h264. Why? 

How did you make it play x265 direct play? How did you uncheck transcoding?

EDIT: I found the disable transcoding option under the User section. And then it seemed to work, at least the dashboard is telling me that the x265 is direct played to my Chromecast Ultra.

 

It would be more user-friendly if one could just select encoding quality on the fly in the web interface (and Android interface), whether playing to Chromecast or not. Plex has this, from 64 Kbps to x Mbps to "Original" which I guess is direct play. Is such a feature planned?

Edited December 6, 2016 by pinkfloydhomer

[Stevendewith 0]

How can I see if it is transcoding or direct play?

 

When you go into the manage server screen. On the dashboard tab it lists all your active devices. Under the device it will show what is currently playing and under that it will say if it is transcoding or direct stream.

[Krautmaster 0]

2017-04-02 22:16:37.3101 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 192.168.2.25. Time: 1ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/dlna/46fd2f97f59e4d40873b88d41b9bdac3/description.xml
2017-04-02 22:16:41.8882 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:16:41.8882 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:16:47.1442 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:16:47.1442 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:16:52.1383 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:16:52.1383 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 2ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:16:57.4013 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:16:57.4013 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:17:00.8413 Info HttpServer: HTTP SUBSCRIBE http://192.168.2.100:8096/dlna/46fd2f97f59e4d40873b88d41b9bdac3/contentdirectory/events. UserAgent:
2017-04-02 22:17:00.8413 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 192.168.2.42. Time: 0ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/dlna/46fd2f97f59e4d40873b88d41b9bdac3/contentdirectory/events
2017-04-02 22:17:02.3893 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:17:02.3893 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:17:06.7944 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://192.168.2.100:8096/dlna/46fd2f97f59e4d40873b88d41b9bdac3/description.xml. UserAgent: Allegro-Software-WebClient/5.40b1 DLNADOC/1.50
2017-04-02 22:17:06.7944 Info Dlna: No matching device profile found. The default will need to be used.
    Host: 192.168.2.100:8096
    Connection: close
    User-Agent: Allegro-Software-WebClient/5.40b1 DLNADOC/1.50
    Accept: */*
2017-04-02 22:17:06.7944 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 192.168.2.25. Time: 1ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/dlna/46fd2f97f59e4d40873b88d41b9bdac3/description.xml
2017-04-02 22:17:07.6434 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.71 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.23.82244
2017-04-02 22:17:07.6464 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.2.31. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.2.100:8096/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2017-04-02 22:17:11.1854 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://localhost:8096/emby/Reports/Headers?

 

 

No direct play sadly. 

 

Edit:

 

Transcode Log:

https://pastebin.com/mViuqjN8

 

server log

https://pastebin.com/rQiTqmaD

Edited April 2, 2017 by Krautmaster

[Luke 42079]

@@Krautmaster can you please attach the complete emby server log as well as ffmpeg log? thanks !

[JulioQc 0]

This post seems old but I would like to report trouble playing 4K to the CCU via the Android app. 

 

I managed to make the file to direct play for about 30-45 sec and then it suddenly stops. Playback simply stops without warning and CCU return to generic Emby cast screen. No errors seen on app or TV. 

 

I've attached logs for that session. Playback starts around line 445 and I see an error 500 at line 522. 

 

Here are the ffmpeg details for the test file: 

Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'Planet Earth II S01E01 HEVC 2160p UHD BluRay HDR DTSHD5.1-DDR.new.mkv':
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), 3840x2160, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 25 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp (default)
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s32p (24 bit) (default)
    Stream #0:3(rus): Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s32p (24 bit)
    Stream #0:4(ger): Audio: dts (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s32p (24 bit)
    Stream #0:5(ita): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s
    Stream #0:6(eng): Subtitle: subrip (default)
    Stream #0:7(ita): Subtitle: subrip
    Stream #0:8(eng): Subtitle: dvd_subtitle, 1920x1080
    Stream #0:9(ita): Subtitle: subrip

emby_server.log