Playback is paused in the first minute and can't be resumed

[softworkz 5066]

Hi guys,

 

I think this is not an issue related to hw acceleration. The reason why some of you are seeing a difference between hw and sw encoding is that we are currently not producing consistent results between hw accelerated encoding and sw encoding with regards to the resulting bandwidth of the video. That has the effect that hw accelerated encoding often produces video at a much higher bitrate than sw encoding.

 

I tend to believe that this might be a problem of Chrome not playing along when the amount of data is getting too large and not downloading the hls segments fast enough.

 

You could verify this by pressing F12 inside Chrome, then click on the 'Network' tab. There you can watch the progress of chrome downloading the video segments (each representing 3s of the video).

 

Of course we would also need to have a look at the ffmpeg logs to verify that Emby is generating the segments fast enough...

[softworkz 5066]

In Chrome, it might also be worth having a look at 

 

chrome://media-internals/

 

after some failure to see whether there is some interesting information.

[riffy 32]

I don't ever use Chrome I use Firefox & I have this issue randomly too.

[Luke 42077]

@@riffy

Please see how to report a media playback issue:

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

Thanks !

[softworkz 5066]

@@sephrat - What's the current status of the issue at your side - are you still experiencing this?

[sephrat 16]

@@sephrat - What's the current status of the issue at your side - are you still experiencing this?

It seems to work fine now with 4.4.0.8. The first video I used which used to stop after 10s has been playing for a few minutes now.

Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

Finally, thanks for the feedback !

[maxiu 4]

My files which had problems before seem to be working fine as well. Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for following up !

[L3Nerd 6]

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Edited October 26, 2022 by L3Nerd
Found a more recent thread for posting the problem.