Luke 42077 Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 Does that correlate with the length of the theme video?
mentasm 43 Posted November 2, 2017 Posted November 2, 2017 OK, managed to do a test last night. Opened a TV series via next up and hit play straight away. Watched the timer and got to about 1:50 into the show and play stopped and it switched to theme video, but the theme didn't actually play. Went and checked the theme video file for that show and it is 53 seconds long. So, no, then length doesn't correlate
mentasm 43 Posted November 7, 2017 Posted November 7, 2017 After more usage and testing it does definitely seem that the issue occurs when a video is started before the theme video has started to play while in the details screen. My machine now doesn't actually successfully play the theme video, but it thinks it is. I just get a black screen. As soon as I hit the stop button on the remote I get dropped back to the details screen and can resume the intended video playback
swhitmore 781 Posted November 7, 2017 Posted November 7, 2017 This issue also seems to include theme music as well.
mentasm 43 Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 @@Luke with the information above have you tried to recreate the issue? I seem to be able to cause the issue at will now by playing a video quickly before the theme video kicks in.
Luke 42077 Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 No, I guess I can't seem to make the theme video start slow enough to reproduce this
mentasm 43 Posted November 13, 2017 Posted November 13, 2017 in my case media sits on large and slowish SATA disks which are allowed to sleep due to inactivity. Not an uncommon configuration in an always on media centre. 1
jscoys 147 Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 in my case media sits on large and slowish SATA disks which are allowed to sleep due to inactivity. Not an uncommon configuration in an always on media centre. I’ve got the same configuration sooooo. Maybe Emby is trying to launch the backdrop but can’t because the hard drive is in a “wakeup” state. Then we push “play” before the backdrop plays. The video starts playing but after a certain time Emby remembers that he has to play the backdrop and then inject in to MPV, so the current playback stops and then the backdrop start playing. Indeed on configurations where disks are always on it should happen less, I suppose... but this behaviour is reinforced when playing from outside home from ET because of the Internet latency you get... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
mentasm 43 Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 Yeah, I don't think it should be that hard to put in some logic to prevent theme playback if there is already a video in play state
FairfaxStu 0 Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 Yes. As one of the original folks who posted about this, my disk arrays, while not slow, do have an idle spin down enabled which sometimes does trigger during playback because I have an 8G cache on the controller. Now that I have read all of the posts of similar experiences, it seems that the issue is likely related to Emby trying to playback the video but the disk is still waking up and some sort of logic triggers it to play the theme. The odd part is that the video and the theme are co-located in my case (and probably for every case) so the disk has to wake up for Emby to read either one.
aspdend 177 Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 Yes. As one of the original folks who posted about this, my disk arrays, while not slow, do have an idle spin down enabled which sometimes does trigger during playback because I have an 8G cache on the controller. Now that I have read all of the posts of similar experiences, it seems that the issue is likely related to Emby trying to playback the video but the disk is still waking up and some sort of logic triggers it to play the theme. The odd part is that the video and the theme are co-located in my case (and probably for every case) so the disk has to wake up for Emby to read either one. Exactly the same for me - that's the bit I don't understand...if the episode/movie file is on the same disk as the theme video/music, how can the main file start playing before the theme kicks in 20-30 seconds later?
mentasm 43 Posted November 27, 2017 Posted November 27, 2017 Just dropping in to this thread to say this issue still occurs for me
Logos302 86 Posted January 25, 2018 Posted January 25, 2018 This is still happening. I'm not sure what more to add it looks like everyone has provided lots details, but if you need more. Just ask. As everyone else it doesn't always happen, but when it does it really annoying. It also doesn't seem to happen to all users. Which makes me think it might be a different setting like play trailers, or intros that is some how interfering and being triggered 30+second in.
Luke 42077 Posted January 26, 2018 Posted January 26, 2018 That probably explains why it's difficult to reproduce.
jscoys 147 Posted October 8, 2018 Posted October 8, 2018 Soooooo.... I can reproduce it! The issue is due to the fact that the main player in ET is trying to open a file to play, then you launch the main movie/tv show, and finally after some times the old file he tried to open becomes available and override the playback... To reproduce: - put a theme.mp3 in a movie directory for instance - do a scan library - delete the theme.mp3 file - DON’T DO A SCAN LIBRARY - open ET, go on the movie page, it will start trying to open the theme.mp3... - start playback of the movie - everything is fine, then several minutes after the playback stops and the main backdrop is displayed... It’s not exactly exactly what the issue is, but I think it’s the closest and best way to reproduce it. Hope it will help, keep us posted @@Luke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
mentasm 43 Posted December 27, 2018 Posted December 27, 2018 Still occurs for me. Can reproduce it at will. Super annoying. If there is a theme video and you do not wait for it to start playing in the background before you select play it will start trying to play the theme video after about 30 seconds. Happened to me on xmas eve when I sat down to watch Die Hard. Theme videos seem to typically take a few seconds to start playing after a media details screen is entered. I guess this isn't an issue for people who get their theme videos playing instantly. No idea why mine is slow. OS is on an SSD. Media is on local SATA disk. Reasonable i5 CPU and 8Gb RAM. No network shares involved. Server and client both on same machine.
Luke 42077 Posted December 27, 2018 Posted December 27, 2018 Thanks for the info. I will do another round of testing on this issue. Thanks.
mentasm 43 Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 Thanks. Once again, I'm happy to help troubleshoot or provide data etc to get the issue resolved
Luke 42077 Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 In the coming weeks we actually are going to be reworking the audio player to support gapless playback. Due to the scope of the changes I would say let's re-evaluate once we have that feature in, because I have a feeling it might affect this. Thanks. 1
jscoys 147 Posted January 12, 2019 Posted January 12, 2019 Ok let us know Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
jscoys 147 Posted December 23, 2019 Posted December 23, 2019 In the coming weeks we actually are going to be reworking the audio player to support gapless playback. Due to the scope of the changes I would say let's re-evaluate once we have that feature in, because I have a feeling it might affect this. Thanks. @@Luke still happening, and it’s worst when playing from outside with ET... can you have a look to this long time ongoing issue please? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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