I want a solution like nextcloud for managing my video files becuase it offers direct easy folder and file organization. Honestly video streaming support with a file browser that has thumbnail preview support was one of my primary reasons for trying nextcloud. The Nextcloud Android App has substantial issues even with the 25Mbps clip (worse than Firefox under Win 10). I just now compared the 25Mbps clip in Chrome, that plays better than in Firefox. On my PC (Win10) I usually work with Firefox, that performs bad with the 25Mpbs clip and is basically unusable with the 50Mbps video (even in local LAN). The problem seems depending on the (browser embedded?) Media player that the Nextcloud Website triggers when clicking on a video. Basically, with VLC, video streaming is working as expected. While doing these tests, I observed a new interesting aspect: Steaming performance using VLC (enter https URL into VLC player) is much better than using browser or Nextclud Android app. My conclusion is the weakness seems general and neither NC server version depending nor specific to my own HW or installation. It is not better than from my own NC15 installation when using the same test video. With that, the streaming performance is a bit better, but still week. So I re-encoded a test video from the original 50Mpbs performance down to 25Mbps. (Probably a server-side limitation, my connection is 240Mbps inbound). I can reach only 25Mbps throughput from them. I’m running NC server 15.0.05, but observed the same issue with earlier versions as well. I have tested this with multiple clients under Android (tested with Nextcloud App and Firefox Browser) and Windows (Firefox browser) clients. However, I guess this is only because the issue is hidden by the comparatively small throughput needed for such videos. The issue does not happen (or at least is significantly less) with low bitrate videos. I also observed time to play varies from try to try, while time for just downloading the file is fairly same all the time. If I try to stream the same file it takes maybe 20 sec until it starts playing. However, the point I’m making here is, the buffering often takes significant longer than the time needed to download the entire video - while I’d expect the exact opposite.įor example, here in the local LAN it takes 2-3 sec to download a small 70MB video-clip to my client PC. I’m aware that certain buffer time and also possible interruptions are normal for a video with such high bitrate and it is depending on network connection speed. In the Android client the spinning wheel is spinning for ages, in the browser (Firefox) the video screen is just black until the video finally play. When I try to stream my video-clips earlier recorded with my smart phone (1080 / 60fps / 50mbps) I recognize that the client often needs long time until the video starts playing.
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