Bob and Weave - How to enable?

[EricGRIT09 6]

So I recently moved over to Emby and going through some pains with live TV - specifically in regards to my Shield TV and new Fire TV Stick 4k.  Main issue being that the Shield TV seems to have a (possibly known) issue with direct playing MPEG2 1080i content (frame drops or stutter after 5-10 mins of playback).

 

I've started to look into transcoding the live TV streams in any case as I'd like to be able to time shift live TV and from my understanding that is only possible if Emby transcodes.  This would also solve any issues with direct play of MPEG2 no matter the device.

 

Here's what I'm seeing, though.  When transcoding 1080i content I ultimately see a 1080p @ 30fps stream - from my research into this topic I should be able to enable "bob and weave" deinterlacing and that will ultimately output 60fps.  Is that still possible?  I added a deinterlace method line to the encoding config file but that didn't seem to change anything - is there documentation on this or is it totally impossible now?  Again, from my recent research, it looks like this used to be an option for this in the admin pages but you took it out as some folks were using it incorrectly?

 

For the record, I'm using NVENC hardware acceleration.  Perhaps that eliminates this possibility?

 

Thanks in advance, trying to do as much digging as I can before I ask any questions here which have probably been asked before.

Edited November 19, 2018 by EricGRIT09

[Luke 42080]

Hi, we don't currently have any options for this. I would suggest giving it a little time as we're currently revamping hardware acceleration. Once we get through that then we'll see where we stand. Thanks.

[EricGRIT09 6]

Hi, we don't currently have any options for this. I would suggest giving it a little time as we're currently revamping hardware acceleration. Once we get through that then we'll see where we stand. Thanks.

 

Thank you and appreciate the work being done.

 

One thing just to make sure I'm not eliminating my possibilities, are you saying this isn't possible *at all* or just with hardware acceleration enabled?  I'd be willing to move to software transcoding if it opened up more options in this regard.

[Luke 42080]

We haven't fully investigated it at this point, so i don't yet have answers. As part of revamping our nvenc support we will be looking at deinterlacing. Thanks.

[EricGRIT09 6]

We haven't fully investigated it at this point, so i don't yet have answers. As part of revamping our nvenc support we will be looking at deinterlacing. Thanks.

 

Cool, thanks again.  Mark me down as someone who would prever NVENC over anything else I've seen at this point, so I'm excited to see what you all have in store.