I am still fighting with the Streaming Brain. I have a movie that I encoded myself
This total bandwidth is listed as:
requiredBandwidths="2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647"
But the bandwidth needed for the stream is:
requiredBandwidths="2888,2271,2125,2125,2125,2125,2125,2125"
The video will still Direct Play at 3 Mbps, I’m just wondering if there is a bug in the Deep Analysis?
It would be easier to help if you posted the complete XML file for the media in question.
Sorry, here is the full XML.
@skubiszm said:
requiredBandwidths="2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647"
After conferring with Plex Team, the line above indicates that plex could not determine the bandwidth properly.
And this part further in the XML, hasThumbnail="1", is probably why. Attached content can have an effect on direct play.
Does hasThumbnail refer to the Cover photo? I do have one attached for iTunes? Why does that affect direct play? This seems like a bug to me. Total bandwidth should just be the sum of video and audio.
@hthighway said:
requiredBandwidths="2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647,2147483647"After conferring with Plex Team, the line above indicates that plex could not determine the bandwidth properly.
And this part further in the XML,hasThumbnail="1", is probably why. Attached content can have an effect on direct play.
Discovered today that a few of my videos have this ridiculously high “required bandwith” readings and cannot be streamed using direct play or direct stream without a lot of buffering, even though they had worked previously. The requiredBandwidths are identical to those previously posted. In my case, the files do not seem to have the “hasThumbnail=1” in the XML, and to my knowledge don’t have an embedded thumbnail. This shows up in both MKV’s and MP4’s. Almost all of my library content is at 720p, with an average total bitrate of around 3-4 Mbps. Not all, but a couple of them do have embedded ASS and/or SRT subtitle tracks that have the high required rates.
Is there a way to force a new Deep Analysis on a file? Maybe it’s something that has been fixed in server updates, but Plex doesn’t know it needs to re-analyze those high requirements? If not, is there a fix? Not opposed to re-muxing to a different container, but re-ripping and re-encoding seems like a big chore I don’t look forward to.
@leelynds said:
Is there a way to force a new Deep Analysis on a file? Maybe it’s something that has been fixed in server updates, but Plex doesn’t know it needs to re-analyze those high requirements?
Analysis will be repeated automatically by the Butler if the analysis was attempted previously with an older server version.
Of course you have to have
“Upgrade media analysis during maintenance”
and
“Perform extensive media analysis during maintenance”
activated under ‘Scheduled Tasks’
This is still an issue today. All my new content gets this rediculously high bitraevalue. And yes all my new contant gets a thumbnail taged automatically. So wheres the fix, nearly 3 years later!?!?!
I am too facing this problem on quite some files.
Is there a fix for this?
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