Playback stopped for an extended period

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

I am using a 2nd gen Fire TV Cube with the latest version of the Emby app. While playing a movie "Forgetting Sara Marshal" playback stopped for at least a minute. See attached log file.

embyserver-Fire-TV-Error.txt

[Luke 42079]

Hi, and the ffmpeg log?

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

Emby was doing Direct Play - mpeg2 with DD 5.1

[ebr 16184]

Hi.  Is it possible there was a network disruption of some sort?

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

Very unlikely. We are very dependent on the network and have never seen a disruption, but there are some new situations for this case. I am new to the Fire TV Cube. It is connected via wifi where as all my other devices are hardwired. There is a really solid access point just above the Fire TV cube. I believe I have seen Emby slowdowns when there is a scheduled task or waiting for a restart, but not for a minute. Also wondered if my windows 8.1 server was busy doing something, but again probably not for a whole minute. I checked and playback was not paused it it thought it was playing. With my somewhat short experience with the cube I have seen some various weirdness compared to using Emby on the LG TV which is generally very solid.

 

You didn't see anything unusual in the log?

[Luke 42079]

Is it only with this one video file?

[ebr 16184]

Hard to say but this happened right when your freeze occurred:

2020-02-07 22:33:03.724 Info LibraryMonitor: Recorded TV (D:\Recorded TV) will be refreshed.

But then it looks like the app just stopped requesting or went away for a while.

[William LeDuc @gmail 2]

This is the only video file I have played for an extended period. Been doing mostly streaming. Thank you for checking into the issue. I will wait to see if it happens again. IMO the Fire TV is flaky compared to the LG TV. Using the LG TV and Emby I can Direct Play a huge variety of video files perfectly. 70gb 4k HDR to mpeg2 and everything in between. And I commend on your development of the LG app. Excellent interface.  

[Luke 42079]

Can you reproduce with other videos?