Playback (transcode) on chromecast pauzes consistently

[KMelsen]

Hi,

I've got Jellyfin 10.8.13 running in Unraid. I was casting an episode of the tudors last night, see server_log at 21:39:17.988, remotely through a reverse proxy with DVDSUB subtitles. This resulted in transcoding (see FFMPEG logs). All fine so far, playback started right away. The issue is that after ~9 minutes the playback paused. Clicking the revert 10 seconds button restarted playback (and seems to have resulted in new FFMPEG logs). This kept happening, every time after around 9 minutes after restarting playback. Is this some kind of transcoding timeout issue or something? I've got websockets support enabled in nginx proxy manager if that matters.

I played the next episode without subs (direct) around 22:41 and this played fine. Any ideas what's happening?


  FFMPEG_1.txt (Size: 79.56 KB / Downloads: 24)

  FFMPEG_2.txt (Size: 51.56 KB / Downloads: 25)

  FFMPEG_3.txt (Size: 33.09 KB / Downloads: 31)

  server_log.txt (Size: 141.8 KB / Downloads: 27)

[TheDreadPirate]

When you say Chromecast, do you mean one of the Android TV Chromecasts? Or an older "dumb" Chromecast?

[KMelsen]

Hi, it's an older chromecast. The gray round one, so no android TV and also not the ultra 4k model.

[TheDreadPirate]

Honestly, Jellyfins casting implementation is pretty jank. Nothing in your logs indicates a server side issue.

[KMelsen]

Yeah I have no idea what is going on. The casting worked fine when I used SRT subtitles. Now I'm having issues with the seeker bar not working in the windows app, however. And playback just randomly stopping. I don't know why the jellyfin app are such piles of garbage when the server is so good. Kind of ruins the experience...

Thanks for taking a look though!

[TheDreadPirate]

Most of our actual apps are pretty good.  Its casting, specifically, that is jank AF.