How do I set a global maximum quality?

[Paulshelling 9]

I have some 4k videos and my Apple TV is struggling to play them so I'd like Emby to play all videos at 1080p or the highest quality below.

I've had a look at other questions but they don't do whatever it is i'm trying to do?

[Guest]

The Admin account sets the network or Home Network Quality globally.. This option is not available in the User Accounts..

This could the way to choke back what EMBY puts through... and trigger transcoding... Also for the Apple TV if there is a way to urn off hardware transcoding this may trigger the system server to transcode for you as well.

[Paulshelling 9]

That's correct, I want it to be set globally.

However when I go to Settings there's only Home Network Quality and changing this doesn't have any effect.

I've managed to improve performance on the device by changing the settings to 720p and audio to 1mb however the video comes across as slightly pixelated.

I should note this is for music videos, movies seem to play at full quality without issue.

Shouldn't the Auto option be taking care of this? I don't know much about transcoding, but I believe it's related to changing the video's format, I don't believe I need to do that, or at least do anything more than it already does with all the other types of videos, such as movies.

 

[Happy2Play 9782]

Quality is a device setting not a Server setting.

Sure you have Internet streaming bitrate limit you can apply to for remote connections.

[Luke 42081]

As happy2play said, you can set a global maximum for remote connections, but that is only an upper-bound maximum, in order to prevent apps from going beyond that. The quality setting still needs to be set individually in each app.

[Luke 42081]

4 hours ago, Paulshelling said:

 

but I believe it's related to changing the video's format, I don't believe I need to do that

 

Hi there, did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it was transcoding?

[neik 873]

On 5/8/2021 at 4:48 AM, Luke said:

As happy2play said, you can set a global maximum for remote connections, but that is only an upper-bound maximum, in order to prevent apps from going beyond that. The quality setting still needs to be set individually in each app.

Clarification on that global limit, following scenario:

Global limit: 40mbit

Bitrate per file: 15mbit

Stream 1 and 2 works just fine as they equal to 30mbit but what happens when a third stream is started?

1. Will it simply not start due to not enough available bitrate?

2. Will it transcode the third stream to 10mbit to comply with the 40mbit?

3. Will it simply start the third stream and all of them will run into buffering?

Thank you!

[Luke 42081]

7 minutes ago, neik said:

Clarification on that global limit, following scenario:

Global limit: 40mbit

Bitrate per file: 15mbit

Stream 1 and 2 works just fine as they equal to 30mbit but what happens when a third stream is started?

1. Will it simply not start due to not enough available bitrate?

2. Will it transcode the third stream to 10mbit to comply with the 40mbit?

3. Will it simply start the third stream and all of them will run into buffering?

Thank you!

It's a per stream limit, each one gets the same limit.

[neik 873]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

It's a per stream limit, each one gets the same limit.

So, that means there is no such thing like a "global limit", right?

The existing global one is a stream limit which can be reduced further on user basis, am I right?

[Luke 42081]

Correct.