question when when switching graphics cards | ErsatzTV | Page 1

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 12:58 AM

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when switching graphics cards, do i need to resave the accelleration settings for nvenc?

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 12:59 AM

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from nvidia to nvidia? shouldn't need to change anything. etv detects nvidia capabilities the first time a channel streams, i think, so a restart of the service would be all that's needed but it will naturally restart when you swap the card

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 1:01 AM

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oh ok. because emby forgot my settings when i switched grtaphics cards becaus emby was using 100% of my new nvidia rtx 3090 ti. so i enabled them again in emby but its still spiking to 80 and 90% gpu usage

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then when i stop the vod movie in emby my gpu % goes back down to 1%

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its got to be a porblem with emby since it still happens with etv off

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 1:03 AM

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yeah, sounds like it

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 1:03 AM

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im not sure what to do because emby forums havent been too much help for me lately

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 1:33 AM

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Ok I'm not going to ask you to help with emby but there is something weird when I play hdr on etv through emby maybe you could help with

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This only started after i put in my new GPU though

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 1:34 AM

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etv doesnt specifically support hdr atm

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 1:34 AM

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Should I try resetting the playlist?

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Ohh

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Ok

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 1:36 AM

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that will probably be next after the bit depth normalization

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 1:39 AM

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oh awesome

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:17 AM

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ok this is weird. i dont know if its because i restarted my pc or what but now emby 4k hdr shows its using 1% gpu after i reported the 100% gpu issue to emby forum for VOD in emby. and ETV shows im using 40% for a 1080p stream.

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📎 ersatztv20221116.log

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can you see anything wrong in there? i cant read it

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:24 AM

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no, it's working ahead for a movie, which is kind of the worst case. it will hammer the gpu going as fast as it can until that item has been completely transcoded. everything after that first item will be limited to real-time which will use less gpu

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:24 AM

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oh ok ill let it run and i check it later

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what causes it to work ahead? so i can try to prevent it next time

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:36 AM

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it does that to avoid lag, but i think you can turn it off in global settings. like i said, movie is the worst case because it's long content. it only tries to get a minute or two ahead of real time but it can also only do that by transcoding something completely. ffmpeg doesn't let you change its speed on the fly

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:40 AM

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A global setting in emby called work ahead?

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:40 AM

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no, etv

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there's a work ahead limit setting, i think. try dropping it to zero. channels will start slower, but you wont hit the gpu as hard

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:41 AM

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oh ok ill put 0

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just to see

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ok so now i have it set to 0. do i still have to wait for the transcoding to finish? then after that everything should be low gpu usage from then on?

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:46 AM

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it still waits for the first segment to appear on disk (hls segmenter initial segment count), it just might take longer, and you may get buffering. another thing to try would be to bump that initial segment count to 2 or 3 if you get buffering. everything will transcode in "real-time" (which means throttled/less gpu)

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:48 AM

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i want to get the best quality though. i havent maxed out my internet speed yet. but i need it to be able to handle multiple user and this is supposed to be a beast of a gpu

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:48 AM

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there is no quality difference, just speed that a channel will start/potential buffering during streaming. ffmpeg only has two speed options: full speed, or real-time

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:49 AM

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oh ill wait for the first segment like you said too

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because the etv ffmpeg console still says this [21:43:31 INF] HLS segmenter will work ahead for channel 257

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:50 AM

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did you set the work ahead limit to zero and stop watching the channels so they time out?

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:51 AM

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yeah i think i waited

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ill try again

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ive stopped the channel for a while now and it just says this

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how will i know its timed out?

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:54 AM

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there may not be a message if you hit the 60 seconds while it isn't working. try starting the channel again

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:54 AM

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ok

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that had to have been 1 minute

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rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 2:58 AM

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that's strange. can you try restarting etv? if that doesn't fix it ill test locally, maybe a bug with that setting

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 2:59 AM

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ok ill wait till 9:59 and try. then ill try restarting all my servers

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including etv

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yepstillsays working ahead

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illtry restarting

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also im on ErsatzTV Version

v0.6.9-91eb8ab8-win-x64

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its not working ahead after restart

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may 60 seconds is wrong. ill try 59

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actually maybe thats not it

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i stopped the channel and started it again and its back to working ahead

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rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 3:11 AM

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i see the bug, will fix tomorrow

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thanks

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 3:12 AM

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ok sweet

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 3:18 AM

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eh, i think it's a quick fix. building here https://github.com/jasongdove/ErsatzTV/actions/runs/3485037961

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 3:38 AM

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Oh awesome. I'll try it

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it failed to build

rigid solstice Nov 17, 2022, 3:53 AM

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just mac

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 3:53 AM

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oh

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its fixed

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its only using 20% gpu now but thats still pretty high

somber spoke Nov 17, 2022, 7:19 AM

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oh wait i have 2 tvs playing it. i also have my outdoor cameras playing in chrome. ill check again tomorrow with only 1 stream running

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