MarkBarbieri
commented
6 years ago How's things?
Sure, 2.2.5a is ok (or just 2.2.5 is probably fine).
The issue was raised here. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/54850-emby-vs-plex-transcoding/#entry532429.
The user has x265 content which is not supported natively, so the server is transcoding. The old logic limited the transcoded bitrate to the bitrate of the source file. Being x265 this is generally much lower than the x264 equivalent.
The user was experience very poor quality output. This was partially due to the server setting MaxWidth to 1280 but the most significant impact was the bitrate restriction.
To resolve this (which we've tested) changing the limit to the bitrate in the app user settings is more consistent with the official app. There only difference is the official app does a speed test to determine a limit based on the network performance. In this instance, if a user is having an issue they will need to lower the limit in the app, but I'd be surprised if this will be an issues for a local lan connection. For a remote connection, I expect that they will probably already be dropping the max limit.
Happy if you have some other thoughts on this.
Current version is 2.2.4 so this would be 2.2.5a I’m away for a week so can’t test. What problem does this solve Mark?