Some files won't stream or play in the web browser

[Sketchy 7]

I almost never use the web browser/player, I instead cast to MPC-BC and never have any issues, however some friends who have access to the server have mentioned on more than one occasion that my animated & anime files won't play for them. They never seem to have issues with streaming TV shows or Movies from me, only the animated stuff. Today I tried to play one of the animated shows they mentioned won't play properly for them and I tried to play it directly in Chrome and indeed it won't play, just sits there with the spinning wheel. If I cast it to MPC it plays fine. I'll attach the server and transcode log from an attempt to play a problematic file.

 

ffmpeg-transcode-a638346e-423f-4a08-8366-ab14cfc32f3e.txt

server-63630748800.txt

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

And does is play if you disable quicksync?

[h264_qsv @ 000000000284e0e0] Error initializing an internal MFX session

[Sketchy 7]

 

And does is play if you disable quicksync?

[h264_qsv @ 000000000284e0e0] Error initializing an internal MFX session

Sure does, thanks for the help! I knew it was something stupid on my end. I switched PC builds recently and went from an i7 920 that didn't support qsync to a 6 core i7 6800k that also doesn't support qsync so not sure how or when qsync got enabled... I do not recall enabling that but I guess I must have at some point!

 

Seems to play fine with that option enabled. I could be totally wrong but it seems like I notice a lot more direct play and a lot less transcoding going on these days than I did a few months ago. Not sure if you guys changed/optimized things or if it's all in my head and I'm imagining things.  Any idea if its advantageous for me to enable Nvidia NVENC hardware acceleration if I'm using an Nvidia GTX 780, or should I just leave transcoding set to none?

 

One last question. Like I mentioned already, I personally generally play/cast to MPC-BC and use MPC Remote that somebody on these forums had posted a while back, but I do this on this pc, the one that hosts the emby server and the media files. Will that also work on a non local machine that streams off of this pc ?

 

Thanks again for the help.

[Happy2Play 9783]

Sure does, thanks for the help! I knew it was something stupid on my end. I switched PC builds recently and went from an i7 920 that didn't support qsync to a 6 core i7 6800k that also doesn't support qsync so not sure how or when qsync got enabled... I do not recall enabling that but I guess I must have at some point!

 

Seems to play fine with that option enabled. I could be totally wrong but it seems like I notice a lot more direct play and a lot less transcoding going on these days than I did a few months ago. Not sure if you guys changed/optimized things or if it's all in my head and I'm imagining things.  Any idea if its advantageous for me to enable Nvidia NVENC hardware acceleration if I'm using an Nvidia GTX 780, or should I just leave transcoding set to none?

 

One last question. Like I mentioned already, I personally generally play/cast to MPC-BC and use MPC Remote that somebody on these forums had posted a while back, but I do this on this pc, the one that hosts the emby server and the media files. Will that also work on a non local machine that streams off of this pc ?

 

Thanks again for the help.

 

It all depends on the power of the cpu on whether gpu transcoding is a better and the usage of the system.

 

As for MPC remote is can run on any system.  I haven't tried outside my LAN but since you are pointing it directly to the server address it should work on WAN also.

[Sketchy 7]

Excellent. Thanks for the help, Happy2Play!