FFMPEG - Transcode - Drives question

[pir8radio 1312]

Ok....   Bear with me..   (examples only)  My transcode drive is A and my media is located on drive B.   My understanding of how ffmpeg and emby streaming works is that when a client is transcoding a video, ffmpeg is grabbing the video from drive B (media drive) and creating lower quality .ts chunks and placing those chunks onto the drive A (transcoding drive)  Where emby serves up a playlist pointing to those .ts files...  Emby then serves up these .ts files from drive A (transcoding drive) and feeding them to the client as it requests these chunks....   However I am monitoring the drives while transcoding a 4K video, and I see my media drive B reading like crazy (expected), I see the transcoding drive A writing at the bitrate that I would expect (client set to 15-Mbps, drive writing at about the same) All of that as expected.  However I NEVER see anything reading the transcoding drive.... I can track the data from media file to ffmpeg to transcoding, but I never see anything reading from the transcoding drive...  how is the .ts magically leaving the transcoding drive!?      

 

My measurement system works, I tested reading from the drive.  I'm trying to find a bottleneck and its bothering me that I can't follow the bit trail....

 

Transcode Drive A Stats:

Edited May 4, 2017 by pir8radio

[Luke 42085]

it's probably just happening slowly. the idea behind HLS streaming is that the player downloads the segments just in time.

[pir8radio 1312]

it's probably just happening slowly. the idea behind HLS streaming is that the player downloads the segments just in time.

 

10-4 Ill look a little deeper, maybe its just missing the reads like you said..  Thanks!