How do I find out why something is direct streaming?

[bakes82 167]

same file on iphone 12 pro max with dv/hdr support, direct play

[crusher11 1101]

Okay? What's your point?

 

[bakes82 167]

That is HDR or Audio.

Goto the API while the thing is playing, run the GetSessions end point.

 

Then look at the Transcode Info.  It looks like the audio is the reason its not direct playing on pc for my 1917 movie and the container is TS even though the file is MKV.

 "TranscodingInfo": {
      "AudioCodec": "aac",
      "VideoCodec": "h264",
      "Container": "ts",
      "IsVideoDirect": true,
      "IsAudioDirect": false,
      "Bitrate": 35243828,
      "Framerate": 500,
      "CompletionPercentage": 13.618526048227665,
      "TranscodingPositionTicks": 9721100000,
      "TranscodingStartPositionTicks": 0,
      "Width": 1920,
      "Height": 1080,
      "AudioChannels": 2,
      "TranscodeReasons": [
        "ContainerNotSupported"
      ],
      "VideoDecoderIsHardware": false,
      "VideoEncoderIsHardware": false
    },

 

[pwhodges 2012]

If you look at crusher11's logs, you'll see that neither video nor audio is transcoded - the ffmpeg log says "copy" for each of them.  Nothing is being done other than remuxing, so talk of HDR or audio is entirely beside the point here.

Paul

[crusher11 1101]

Precisely.

I remuxed the MKVs myself in Toolnix into new MKVs and it works now. Weird.

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Direct Streaming happens for three reasons that I am aware of.

1. Container not supported 

2. Client/app does not have direct access to file.

3. The audio track need converting.

 

 

[vdatanet 1617]

16 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

Precisely.

I remuxed the MKVs myself in Toolnix into new MKVs and it works now. Weird.

 

Maybe it was a malformed MKV file.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes that would suggest bad header info if it did remux without any errors.