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Posted

Hi folks,

 

I'm desperate. I have one reordes show which won't play on my Win10 web browser on the server, nor on the Win7 web client.

 

But it plays on my Android phone!?

 

Error log attached.

 

I REALLY hope anyone can help, explain, and get it playing before my spouse freaks out. :blink:

Posted

Hi, did you forget to attach the log? thanks.

Posted

Can you describe what happened? thanks.

Posted

The screen goes black, as if preparing to play, and the fails with the message:

 

"No compatible streams are currently available. Please try again later or contact your system administrator for details."

 

Butr it plays fine on Android.

Posted

I just found out, it plays on a Win10 client using Emby Theater, but not with the web browser player.

Posted

I have cross-tested. This stream (1080i, h264) plays on Win7 SP1 and Win10 with Emby Theater, but not on any Windows PC using the Web browser interface.

It plays on android, though.

 

Luke: Are you interested if I can find a way to transfer the file to you for investigation? (using WeTransfer or similar).

Posted

dropbox, google drive are fine. if it's just one file you may want to re-encode it.

Posted (edited)

Hi Luke,

 

It's the first time I tried Google drive, but I hope I did it right. Please let me know if I need changes.

The link should be:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K35dQ0Gs59lurOoHb7FeDBPc4lM31pqY/view?usp=sharing

 

It's around 3 GB, and won't start playback on Web browser (Win7 and Win10).

Plays fine on Emby Theater on Win7 and Win10. The file also plays on Android (transcoded, WLAN on my phone)

 

Let me know when you got the file, so I can remove it when investigated.

Edited by Jennice
Posted

For the time being, it's solved by using Emby Theater (one of my clients can't use ET due to Win7 plain, not SP1).

 

But it seems that my emby INSISTS on transcoding content, even on LAN and. Any ideas why, and how to disable for local viewing? Server is Win10 viewer is web interface, client is Win7SP1, viewer is Emby Theater.

 

I think "plain" viewing shouldn't load an i7 8700k to around 20% !?

Posted

We'd have to look at the server/ffmpeg logs of an example. Theater will try to direct play everything. What might have happened is that the player reported an error and therefore automatically switched to transcoding.

Posted

I gave up on the issue... using Emby Theater, which plays it fine

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