Active Streams partially working. - Solved

[switchman]

I’m currently on v6.1.9.  When I initially start a show, Active Streams reflects the flow.  I then navigate away from the Active Stream page then navigate back and the data is still shown.  Navigate away and wait a few minutes then go back to active streams and it no longer shows anything being streamed.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Also, under the dashboard, in the shares list section there is a column titled Streams.  The assumption is that any streaming data flows would be registered here by setting the value appropriately.  Mine never change from a zero when I have a video stream going.

 

[bonienl]

Streams are only displayed (counted) when the calling application keeps the connection to the SMB share open. Whenever the application closes the connection to the share, it won't be visible in active streams.

 

[switchman]

Ok, Ill test it again.  It is possible that the stream had completed and had downloaded the entire file and it was sitting in the buffer on my pc to to complete playing.

 

What about the Dashboard Shares list?  Should it also indicate a stream is going.  I have it set to SMB which is what my shares are.

 

Never mind figured it out.  I'm playing back from plex which transcodes to my cache, which is not in the list.  If I just stream a video direct with VLC, it shows the stream going in the list.

 

 

But whats strange is my transcode location is at \\TOWER\cache\apps\tmp\plex and apps shows in the share list, but there is no indication anything is being streamed.  The count is still at 0.

[switchman]

OK, this appears to be operator error.  The stream stays in the displayed till close to the end.  It appears to finish the download and then message goes away,  The balance of the video is in the pc buffer which completes playing normally.

 

[Hammer8]

Hi, actually, what does Streams mean?  I see that when I say play a video file from UnRAID, streams will say 1 on the share the video file is located, but when, say, I backup to the UnRAID server, the streams count stays 0.  What triggers a stream count?