emby server 4.5.4.0 on debian: emby transcodes with the justification: "Media bitrate exceeds limit." although no limit is set

[whytea 5]

Hi

I've set no limit neither for the user nor at the network settings.

 

Playback Info
Player: Web Video Player
Play method: Transcode
Protocol: https
Stream type: HLS
Video Info 
Video resolution: 720x540
Dropped frames: 2
Corrupted frames: 0
Transcoding Info 
Video codec: H264
Audio codec: AAC (direct)
Bitrate: 1.5 Mbps
Transcoding framerate: 37 fps
Reason for transcoding: Media bitrate exceeds limit.
Original Media Info
Container: mpegts
Bitrate: 2.1 Mbps
Video codec: H264 Baseline
Video framerate: 29.97003 fps

I've no ideas why.

Thx for any ideas.

Daniel

[vdatanet 1617]

Are you using a remote connection? Quality is set to "Auto"? If yes, try to increase video quality. Auto is very conservative.

[whytea 5]

Yes it is a remote connection and quality is set to "auto" but I cannot set it to the source quality.

The highest quality i am able to choose is 480p 4 Mbps.

The source is a videostream 720p 30 frames max bitrate is 10 Mbps.

My remote download bandwidth ist about 25 Mbps and my serverside upload is about 50 Mbps.

[vdatanet 1617]

5 minutes ago, whytea said:

The highest quality i am able to choose is 480p 4 Mbps.

That's strange, may be the key to the problem

Maybe you should post the server log

 

Edited April 22, 2021 by vdatanet

[whytea 5]

Okay I tried  an other client.

If I use my IPhone a client the stream won''t be transcoded and uses directplay.

With the Firefox on my Ubuntu PC emby transcodes.

[whytea 5]

OK it seems to be a switching game between the vu+ plugin and emby. After several restarts and several setting variations I have now found a setting that works.

Thanks for your help!

[Luke 42079]

15 hours ago, whytea said:

Okay I tried  an other client.

If I use my IPhone a client the stream won''t be transcoded and uses directplay.

With the Firefox on my Ubuntu PC emby transcodes.

That's because firefox and our iOS app support a different set of media formats. Our iOS app embeds a video player that can direct play a wide range of formats without transcoding. The web browser video players have very strict requirements.

[Luke 42079]

16 hours ago, whytea said:

HiI've set no limit neither for the user nor at the network settings.

There is also the quality setting in the app that the user is playing from.

 

[Luke 42079]

Have your questions been answered?

[whytea 5]

Yes thank you.

I think I got confused by the reasoning.

 

Do you maybe have an idea about my other problem too?

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/97289-emby-server-4540-on-debian-network-configuration-changes-were-not-applied/

 

Edited April 23, 2021 by whytea