Transcoding doesn't appear to be working

[NTkiller7000 0]

Hi folks, I'm having issues with getting some smart TV's to play over LAN. I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but I'm new to streaming media over the network. I'm used to simply using VLC on a computer, and it "just works". Anyway, both TV's in question see the share, and can play some content, but not all. The main TV I'm interested in is a Samsung 43" J5200, while the other is my brother's LG 75" WebOS TV. Now, playing the content on a PC on the network works fine, whether using a media player or the web interface, but the Samsung complains about the file format not being supported. The files the TV seems to like are MP4s, but the others are MKVs that are also encoded in MP4. What gives? Is the TV to dumb to realize that the content is the same? Anyway, I thought the whole transcoding thing was to take content the TV won't support and translate it into something it can. In theory, this setup should "just work" as well. One thing I noticed is the videos encoded in MP4 show up as MP4s on the TV, but the others show up as octet-stream. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Luke 42078]

Can you please attach the emby server log from when you tried to do this? You can learn how to do that here:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/739-how-to-report-a-problem/

 

Thanks.

[NTkiller7000 0]

Sorry for the late reply, I tried Emby server on a different machine to see if there was an issue with CPU power, but the problem is still present. I have a log from where I tried a variety of files, some worked, some didn't.

server-63657702711.txt

Edited March 27, 2018 by NTkiller7000

[Luke 42078]

Hi, I don't see any playback attempts in this log. Are you sure this is the one from the time frame that you had a problem?

[NTkiller7000 0]

Sorry, my bad, wrong logfile. Try this one.

server-63657703843.txt

[Luke 42078]

Hi, this is resolved for the next release of emby server, thanks !

[NTkiller7000 0]

Hi, this is resolved for the next release of emby server, thanks !

Bug? Also, if I'm running this server on a low power system, say a repurposed thin client ( I wanted something fanless),will the server attempt to transcode even it the CPU cant keep up with the workload, or will it just simply not try? I need to find out if it's worth building a box just to run this server or not.

[Luke 42078]

It will still attempt to transcode but there are ways to stop that if you really want to. But doing that might mean you can't play the content.