Random Questions about Emby.

[Rsslone 1]

So I decided to dual host with Plex and Emby for a while or maybe even for good since Emby has great support for the HDHomeRun and even recording. I have a few questions about the content playback with Emby and since I have limited bandwidth for upload but plenty of processing power I'm trying to optimise for that.

 

1. What does "Internet streaming bitrate limit" exactly mean. Does this enforce a global limit or per client limit? If its a global limit and its reached does Emby cut down the quality of all streams on the fly to ensure QoS or something else?
2. How exactly does "Hardware acceleration" work? What are the supported systems? Does this enable both CPU and GPU to transcode together?
3. How do you force transcoding? Is this in the settings for Clients or a Server setting? Does transcoding use less bandwidth than direct?
4. Is there any feedback for client buffering or stats on the server?
5. How does Emby handle multiple transcodes? Does it split the load 50-50 or go based on demand?

Thanks for answers in advance and thanks for making such awesome beautiful software!

[mastrmind11 722]

So I decided to dual host with Plex and Emby for a while or maybe even for good since Emby has great support for the HDHomeRun and even recording. I have a few questions about the content playback with Emby and since I have limited bandwidth for upload but plenty of processing power I'm trying to optimise for that.

 

1. What does "Internet streaming bitrate limit" exactly mean. Does this enforce a global limit or per client limit? If its a global limit and its reached does Emby cut down the quality of all streams on the fly to ensure QoS or something else?
2. How exactly does "Hardware acceleration" work? What are the supported systems? Does this enable both CPU and GPU to transcode together?
3. How do you force transcoding? Is this in the settings for Clients or a Server setting? Does transcoding use less bandwidth than direct?
4. Is there any feedback for client buffering or stats on the server?
5. How does Emby handle multiple transcodes? Does it split the load 50-50 or go based on demand?

Thanks for answers in advance and thanks for making such awesome beautiful software!

1) Per connection.

2) Harwdare acceleration pushes the transcoding workload to the GPU.  VAAPI, NVENC, OMX and QuickSync are supported but are still very much an experimental feature.

3) You can force transcoding by setting a capped bitrate, or you can set a bitrate on the client.  However, Emby will auto sense whether transcoding is necessary based on the device, a/v codec, bitrate, bandwidth, etc.

4) Not natively, but others here have created custom front ends using nginx or apache to comb logs and aggregate stats.  

5) Based on demand though there is a setting to throttle the transcode speed.

 

HTH

 

edit: fixed #1 per @@Happy2Play's correction

Edited January 13, 2017 by mastrmind11

[Happy2Play 9785]

Sorry but number 1 is a per connection limit not Global.

[Luke 42085]

Hi, for #1, it is per individual connection but we will probably fine tune it in the future with more control.

[Happy2Play 9785]

Thanks, it is per individual connection.

Hi, for #1, it is global but we will probably fine tune it in the future with more control.

 

So which post is correct?

[Luke 42085]

My mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

[Rsslone 1]

Sorry for the late response, I am so used to my own topics being auto followed lol.

 

What are some of the popular stat front ends for emby? I'm still working on importing my 5TB but I already am loving how pretty everything looks with emby and all the information it gives you about the content. So much information on the user end but so little on the server admin end.. im so sad. I want a plexpy for emby *cries uncontrollably*