Chromecast not sending conditions to bound 2160p video for 1080p client

[GodTamIt]

Describe the bug

The original bug is here but I think it's a client bug: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/502

I did some digging in the logs this comment and had an explanation here.

Logs

Log line

> `[2023-08-28 20:28:19.574 +00:00] [DBG] [83] Jellyfin.Api.Controllers.MediaInfoController: GetPostedPlaybackInfo profile: DeviceProfile { Name: "AndroidTV-ExoPlayer", Id: null, Identification: null, FriendlyName: null, Manufacturer: null, ManufacturerUrl: null, ModelName: null, ModelDescription: null, ModelNumber: null, ModelUrl: null, SerialNumber: null, EnableAlbumArtInDidl: False, EnableSingleAlbumArtLimit: False, EnableSingleSubtitleLimit: False, SupportedMediaTypes: "Audio,Photo,Video", UserId: null, AlbumArtPn: null, MaxAlbumArtWidth: 0, MaxAlbumArtHeight: 0, MaxIconWidth: null, MaxIconHeight: null, MaxStreamingBitrate: 20000000, MaxStaticBitrate: 100000000, MusicStreamingTranscodingBitrate: 128000, MaxStaticMusicBitrate: 8000000, SonyAggregationFlags: null, ProtocolInfo: null, TimelineOffsetSeconds: 0, RequiresPlainVideoItems: False, RequiresPlainFolders: False, EnableMSMediaReceiverRegistrar: False, IgnoreTranscodeByteRangeRequests: False, XmlRootAttributes: [], DirectPlayProfiles: [DirectPlayProfile { Container: "m4v,mov,xvid,vob,mkv,wmv,asf,ogm,ogv,mp4,webm", AudioCodec: "aac,mp3,mp2,aac_latm,alac,ac3,eac3,dca,dts,mlp,truehd,pcm_alaw,pcm_mulaw", VideoCodec: "h264,hevc,vp8,vp9,mpeg,mpeg2video", Type: Video }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "aac,mp3,mp2,aac_latm,alac,ac3,eac3,dca,dts,mlp,truehd,pcm_alaw,pcm_mulaw,mpa,flac,wav,wma,ogg,oga,webma,ape,opus", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Audio }, DirectPlayProfile { Container: "jpg,jpeg,png,gif,webp", AudioCodec: null, VideoCodec: null, Type: Photo }], TranscodingProfiles: [TranscodingProfile { Container: "ts", Type: Video, VideoCodec: "hevc,h264", AudioCodec: "aac,mp3,mp2,aac_latm,alac,ac3,eac3,dts,mlp,pcm_alaw,pcm_mulaw", Protocol: "hls", EstimateContentLength: False, EnableMpegtsM2TsMode: False, TranscodeSeekInfo: Auto, CopyTimestamps: False, Context: Streaming, EnableSubtitlesInManifest: False, MaxAudioChannels: null, MinSegments: 0, SegmentLength: 0, BreakOnNonKeyFrames: False, Conditions: [] }, TranscodingProfile { Container: "mp3", Type: Audio, VideoCodec: "", AudioCodec: "mp3", Protocol: "", EstimateContentLength: False, EnableMpegtsM2TsMode: False, TranscodeSeekInfo: Auto, CopyTimestamps: False, Context: Streaming, EnableSubtitlesInManifest: False, MaxAudioChannels: null, MinSegments: 0, SegmentLength: 0, BreakOnNonKeyFrames: False, Conditions: [] }], ContainerProfiles: [], CodecProfiles: [CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: EqualsAny, Property: VideoProfile, Value: "high|main|baseline|constrained baseline", IsRequired: False }, ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: VideoLevel, Value: "51", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: RefFrames, Value: "12", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: GreaterThanEqual, Property: Width, Value: "1200", IsRequired: False }], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: RefFrames, Value: "4", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: GreaterThanEqual, Property: Width, Value: "1900", IsRequired: False }], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: NotEquals, Property: VideoProfile, Value: "Main 10", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: "hevc", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: VideoAudio, Conditions: [ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: AudioChannels, Value: "8", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: null, Container: null }], ResponseProfiles: [], SubtitleProfiles: [SubtitleProfile { Format: "srt", Method: External, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "subrip", Method: External, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "ass", Method: Encode, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "ssa", Method: Encode, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "pgs", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "pgssub", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "dvbsub", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "dvdsub", Method: Encode, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "vtt", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "sub", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }, SubtitleProfile { Format: "idx", Method: Embed, DidlMode: null, Language: null, Container: null }] }`

More specifically, the parts of interest, prettified here:

TranscodingProfiles and CodecProfiles

``` TranscodingProfiles: [ TranscodingProfile { Container: "ts", Type: Video, VideoCodec: "hevc,h264", AudioCodec: "aac,mp3,mp2,aac_latm,alac,ac3,eac3,dts,mlp,pcm_alaw,pcm_mulaw", Protocol: "hls", EstimateContentLength: False, EnableMpegtsM2TsMode: False, TranscodeSeekInfo: Auto, CopyTimestamps: False, Context: Streaming, EnableSubtitlesInManifest: False, MaxAudioChannels: null, MinSegments: 0, SegmentLength: 0, BreakOnNonKeyFrames: False, Conditions: [] }, TranscodingProfile { Container: "mp3", Type: Audio, VideoCodec: "", AudioCodec: "mp3", Protocol: "", EstimateContentLength: False, EnableMpegtsM2TsMode: False, TranscodeSeekInfo: Auto, CopyTimestamps: False, Context: Streaming, EnableSubtitlesInManifest: False, MaxAudioChannels: null, MinSegments: 0, SegmentLength: 0, BreakOnNonKeyFrames: False, Conditions: [] } ], ContainerProfiles: [], CodecProfiles: [ CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: EqualsAny, Property: VideoProfile, Value: "high|main|baseline|constrained baseline", IsRequired: False }, ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: VideoLevel, Value: "51", IsRequired: False } ], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: RefFrames, Value: "12", IsRequired: False } ], ApplyConditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: GreaterThanEqual, Property: Width, Value: "1200", } ], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: RefFrames, Value: "4", IsRequired: False }], ApplyConditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: GreaterThanEqual, Property: Width, Value: "1900", IsRequired: False } ], Codec: "h264", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: Video, Conditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: NotEquals, Property: VideoProfile, Value: "Main 10", IsRequired: False } ], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: "hevc", Container: null }, CodecProfile { Type: VideoAudio, Conditions: [ ProfileCondition { Condition: LessThanEqual, Property: AudioChannels, Value: "8", IsRequired: False } ], ApplyConditions: [], Codec: null, Container: null } ], ```

System (please complete the following information):

Please see original issue.

[nielsvanvelzen]

Is this with the stable or unstable client?

[GodTamIt]

@nielsvanvelzen I want to say that this is the stable but this was reported by someone else. (see aforementioned thread)

[dd-ugm]

@nielsvanvelzen I've just checked, and the Chromecast HD I'm experiencing this on is actually running v0.15.12 of jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv.

Although I'm unsure on the differences between the two projects...

I'm assuming this repo facilitates the casting functionality from the Android mobile app? If that's the case then I believe jellyfin-androidtv will be the right place to discuss this.

[thornbill]

This is the cast receiver app for normal casting. It has nothing to do with the Android TV app that is installable on a Chromecast with Google TV.

[thornbill]

Additionally the Chromecast with Google TV devices natively support 4K video. In the case of the HD device, the device should handle downscaling.

Ref: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media#chromecast_with_google_tv

I'll move the original issue and close this since this seems to be a discussion about the Android TV app.

[bertmelis]

The issue is on Chromecast without Google TV.

[thornbill]

The logs provided are most definitely from the Android TV app... AndroidTV-ExoPlayer is the device profile referenced.