Could use some general ideas/advice: Transcoding barely works; untranscoded causes buffering
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:39 pm
I could really use some help here. I've been using UMS (and its predecessor) for nearly a decade now, but I'm currently having so many issues I'm tempted to just chuck in favor of simply getting an external storage device so I don't have to bother anymore.
Up until a few months ago, I'd been streaming media to my PS4. This worked relatively well, but any kind of pausing or fast-forwarding/rewinding caused the file to crash after a minute or two.
Then my old TV died. I got myself a LG 4K OLED55B8 and promptly found out you don't quite get the full color depth or image quality if you stream via the PS4, so I switched to streaming to my TV directly.
This wasn't anywhere near as successful as I'd hoped.
FFmpeg doesn't work for half the videos. For those it does, pausing causes crashes much like on the PS4 and forwarding/rewinding does not function at all. It just causes the video to start anew from the very beginning.
MEncoder and Avisynth don't even try.
Figuring my PC was more than up to the task, I went with the 'No transcoding' option, which works fine... except that subtitles lose any and all settings attached to them, often resulting in an unreadable mess.
Then last week I found out that trying to stream 4K untranscoded is a lost cause because my TV apparently has the cheapest LAN port imaginable, resulting in *very* frequent buffering. But when I try to transcode, not a single option works. Going back to streaming over the PS4 works, but then I lose out on image quality again.
For reference, my PC has a Ryzen R9 3900x, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, Geforce 2070 Super and runs off of an Nvme SSD. I *highly* doubt the problems are on that end.
Is there anything I can try to salvage this, or am I better off just shelving out 50 bucks for an external HD? I have, to my knowledge, tried tweaking pretty much every setting in the default UI. Only thing I haven't tried is editing the setting files directly, which I believe is possible from what I've glanced from other posts.
tl;dr: Transcoding is a broken mess, untranscoded streaming results in buffering @ 4K, along with messy subtitles. Halp.
Attached is a zip with logs that should show the issues mentioned above, barring the buffering.
Thanks for any and all advice you can give.
Up until a few months ago, I'd been streaming media to my PS4. This worked relatively well, but any kind of pausing or fast-forwarding/rewinding caused the file to crash after a minute or two.
Then my old TV died. I got myself a LG 4K OLED55B8 and promptly found out you don't quite get the full color depth or image quality if you stream via the PS4, so I switched to streaming to my TV directly.
This wasn't anywhere near as successful as I'd hoped.
FFmpeg doesn't work for half the videos. For those it does, pausing causes crashes much like on the PS4 and forwarding/rewinding does not function at all. It just causes the video to start anew from the very beginning.
MEncoder and Avisynth don't even try.
Figuring my PC was more than up to the task, I went with the 'No transcoding' option, which works fine... except that subtitles lose any and all settings attached to them, often resulting in an unreadable mess.
Then last week I found out that trying to stream 4K untranscoded is a lost cause because my TV apparently has the cheapest LAN port imaginable, resulting in *very* frequent buffering. But when I try to transcode, not a single option works. Going back to streaming over the PS4 works, but then I lose out on image quality again.
For reference, my PC has a Ryzen R9 3900x, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, Geforce 2070 Super and runs off of an Nvme SSD. I *highly* doubt the problems are on that end.
Is there anything I can try to salvage this, or am I better off just shelving out 50 bucks for an external HD? I have, to my knowledge, tried tweaking pretty much every setting in the default UI. Only thing I haven't tried is editing the setting files directly, which I believe is possible from what I've glanced from other posts.
tl;dr: Transcoding is a broken mess, untranscoded streaming results in buffering @ 4K, along with messy subtitles. Halp.
Attached is a zip with logs that should show the issues mentioned above, barring the buffering.
Thanks for any and all advice you can give.