max stream limit after 25 minutes?

[justinrh 260]

Last night I was watching a movie on the ol' Shield and after about 25min Emby popped up a message about exceeding streaming limit.  I'm the only user and only that device was being used.  I started the video again and about 20min later I got the same error again.  I think two shows were being recorded at the same time via the DVR.  I had the Network -> max streams limit =1.  (I forgot I recently changed it from unlimited.)

I suspect the streams limit is the cause, but two questions:

1) I had only one stream (the video I was watching), so why the error?

2) Why the error only after ~20 minute intervals?

Would a server log help explain?

Edited July 5, 2021 by justinrh

[ebr 16199]

Hi.  Exactly what did the message say and what did it look like?  And, yes, a server log from when this  happens would be helpful.

[justinrh 260]

I don't remember exactly, something like 'max stream limit exceeded'.

embyserver-63761039995.txt

[ebr 16199]

When, in that log, did the problem occur? 

The streaming limit is only checked at playback start so were you starting something new?

[Carlo 4561]

I bet another user logged in and starting streaming something and since the limit was set to 1 only 1 stream is allowed on the server.

[ebr 16199]

That would have produced the error for the other user.

One scenario I can imagine would be some sort of playback error causing the app to re-try, which then could produce this situation if the max stream limit was only 1 on the server.

[justinrh 260]

As said, it happened after ~20min, twice.  No other user was connected (unless you consider the DVR a user).

Best I can tell, it looks like the first time it happened was at 2021-07-04 19:13:37.691.

[ebr 16199]

If you raise the limit to 2 does the problem go away?

[justinrh 260]

I've set it back to unlimited and haven't used it since.  I'll let you know if it pops up again and maybe get a screenshot.

[Luke 42086]

18 hours ago, justinrh said:

I've set it back to unlimited and haven't used it since.  I'll let you know if it pops up again and maybe get a screenshot.

Great, thanks !