I'm trying to watch Billions, and it seems to crash the transcoder on releases greater than 1.1.4.2757, tested on . This happens on Safari, Firefox and IOS, but it plays fine on my nVidia Shield TV. I only noticed it on 1.2.4 -> 1.2.7, but have rolled back to 1.1.4.2757.
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.915 [0x11b940000] DEBUG - Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS='/Users/james/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/5a2d9a2-1127-darwin-x86_64/' XDG_CACHE_HOME='/Users/james/Library/Caches/PlexMediaServer/' XDG_DATA_HOME='/Applications/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/Resources/' X_PLEX_TOKEN='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' '/Applications/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex Transcoder' '-codec:0' 'h264' '-noaccurate_seek' '-i' '/mnt/diskstation/tv/Billions/Billions - S01E01 - Pilot WEBDL-720p.mkv' '-map' '0:0' '-codec:0' 'copy' '-map' '0:1' '-metadata:s:1' 'language=eng' '-codec:1' 'copy' '-copypriorss:1' '0' '-f' 'dash' '-use_timeline' '0' '-min_seg_duration' '5000000' '-skip_to_segment' '1' '-time_delta' '0.0625' '-avoid_negative_ts' 'disabled' '-map_metadata' '-1' '-map_chapters' '-1' '-movflags' '+faststart' 'dash' '-start_at_zero' '-copyts' '-vsync' 'cfr' '-y' '-nostats' '-loglevel' 'quiet' '-loglevel_plex' 'error' '-progressurl' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/kfawc4fnlfm/progress'
I've attached the log file and it seems to have this error, around Line 1768
MDE: E01 - Pilot: Direct Play is disabled
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.669 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - MDE: E01 - Pilot: media must be transcoded in order to use the dash protocol
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.669 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - MDE: E01 - Pilot: no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/h264
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.669 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - MDE: E01 - Pilot: no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/h264/aac
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.670 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - MDE: E01 - Pilot: selected media 0 / 375221
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.670 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Adding session 0x7fe47e223710:ovnnfkah7aa which is using 2470kbps of WAN bandwidth. Used is now 2470kbps
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.670 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Added session 0x7fe47e223710:ovnnfkah7aa
Nov 10, 2016 14:17:12.670 [0x11ad49000] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Reached Decision id=168755 codes=(General=1001,Direct play not available; Conversion OK. Direct Play=3000,App cannot direct play this item. Direct play is disabled. Transcode=1001,Direct play not available; Conversion OK.) media=(id=375221 part=(id=406566 decision=transcode container=mp4 protocol=dash streams=(Video=(id=798576 decision=copy width=1280 height=720) Audio=(id=798577 decision=copy channels=2 rate=48000))))Any ideas ? Cheers