Direct play in Emby

[Sowl 1]

Hi

 

I am using latest emby server and kodi 17.3. Both are in different machines connected with home wifi network.

Whenever i play a video in kodi it will play as "direct play".Although i have not given any shared path in emby server library.

But now when i access same media using google chrome it is transcodding every video and it is very slow.

So i just wanted to know how emby is direct playing the same video in kodi but not in chrome . Is there any specific logic behind that??

And without providing share path to emby server It can direct play video??

[Luke 42080]

Web browsers do not support the same amount of media formats as Kodi so that is probably why. What kind of video is this?

[Sowl 1]

@@Luke

Is emby server capable of direct playing without giving optional share path of the video in media library??

[Luke 42080]

Yes it is.

[Sowl 1]

Ok so I don't need to share my media files for direct playing.

Thanks Luke for clarification.

 

Sorry forgot to share you the media detail.

PFA

[Luke 42080]

That's not going to direct play in the web app. There is currently no browser that supports mpeg4 or the avi container.

[Luke 42080]

Why not check out our wiki on transcoding:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Transcoding

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[Sowl 1]

Thanks Luke.

I do have lots of .avi files.so that explains why most of the files are transcoding.

 

Basically I don't have any issue with transcoding as long as video is playing smoothly.

I am using very old laptop with lower configuration for emby server. Maybe because of that I am unable to transcode it probably. Video freezes most of the time.

Current laptop Ram is 2 GB and It is using inbuilt intel graphic card.

I am ready to spend few bucks to get good viewing experience. Wanted to know do I need to increase my laptop RAM or add graphic card to get better viewing experience.?

I am newbie for this. Any suggestion here would be really helpful.