FireTV bitrate limit - unlimited option?

[paul777 13]

Any chance we could have an unlimited option for the bitrate in the FireTV interface, my camera (FZ1000) produces 100Mbit 4K videos and my emby PC can't cope with doing the transcoding in real time but I believe the fireTV box could play them fine - it has a gigabit wired lan connection and more power than my panasonic TV which copes fine with them.

 

thanks

[mastrmind11 722]

Any chance we could have an unlimited option for the bitrate in the FireTV interface, my camera (FZ1000) produces 100Mbit 4K videos and my emby PC can't cope with doing the transcoding in real time but I believe the fireTV box could play them fine - it has a gigabit wired lan connection and more power than my panasonic TV which copes fine with them.

 

thanks

In the meantime, you can sideload Kodi and (should be able to ) direct play those files.

[ebr 16169]

The profile is capped at 100Mb now.  The device spec only states support to 21Mb.

 

I can try adding a larger option but the Auto setting should already  be getting you close to that number.  Although, if the stream is truly 100Mb then our overall cap may be restricting it.

[paul777 13]

Thanks ebr, the auto optioned seems to cap it lower, the transcode log indicated a cap of 71516559.

 

Here is the top of the transcode log if it helps

http://lounge/emby/videos/9ac3f2dbff4510223d3493389d3d7bdd/stream.mkv?DeviceId=ac09ed4027ba7ebf&MediaSourceId=9ac3f2dbff4510223d3493389d3d7bdd&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=ac3,aac,mp3&AudioStreamIndex=1&VideoBitrate=71516559&AudioBitrate=125232&MaxAudioChannels=6&MaxFramerate=60&Level=51&Profile=high&PlaySessionId=a300134e820944b8a2362e86a5ad0265&api_key=2ab46a236777494fba28671494763ad1&CopyTimestamps=true&TranscodingMaxAudioChannels=6&EnableSubtitlesInManifest=false&Tag=489392e0a5d7102a07d9c34ffddc0958&EnableSplittingOnNonKeyFrames=false

{"Protocol":"File","Id":"9ac3f2dbff4510223d3493389d3d7bdd","Path":"D:\\Media\\Home Videos\\Kids\\\P1380807.MP4","Type":"Default","Container":"MP4","Name":"4K/H264/AAC","ETag":"489392e0a5d7102a07d9c34ffddc0958","RunTimeTicks":129600000,"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":true,"IsInfiniteStream":false,"RequiresOpening":false,"RequiresClosing":false,"SupportsProbing":true,"VideoType":"VideoFile","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","CodecTag":"avc1","Language":"und","TimeBase":"1/90000","CodecTimeBase":"1/50","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":94449845,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":2,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Height":2160,"Width":3840,"AverageFrameRate":25,"RealFrameRate":25,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuvj420p","Level":51,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"aac","CodecTag":"mp4a","Language":"und","TimeBase":"1/48000","CodecTimeBase":"1/48000","DisplayTitle":"Und AAC stereo Default","IsInterlaced":false,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","BitRate":125232,"Channels":2,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0}],"PlayableStreamFileNames":[],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":94737414,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{}}

C:\Users\mceuser\AppData\Roaming\MediaBrowser-Server\ffmpeg\20160410\ffmpeg.exe -fflags +genpts -i file:"D:\Media\Home Videos\Kids\P1380807.MP4" -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 libx264 -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*5)" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -start_at_zero -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset superfast -crf 23 -tune zerolatency -b:v 71516559 -maxrate 71516559 -bufsize 143033118 -vsync -1 -profile:v high -level 4.1 -map_metadata -1 -threads 0 -codec:a:0 copy -y "D:\Mediabrowser\transcodeTemp\transcoding-temp\cb6e94589d49978a76649d6cd2e47a28.mkv"

[ebr 16169]

Okay, then that is what communicating with your server tested at.  If the camera source is direct streamed to the actual device then maybe it will work higher than that.

[paul777 13]

I just thought - they skimped on the ethernet spec on the FireTV, even the 4K version only has a 10/100 port, although it looks like it is benchmarking lower than that. It would still be nice to be able to force it to try and use the full 100Mbps though although I can see the mileage may be limited.

 

Interestingly it may mean that it is more capable over 802.11ac which is on the 4K fire TV and the new stick2

Edited December 8, 2016 by paul777