Jellyfin's an awesome open source home media server. I'll show you how I use it to organize my movies and TV shows.Part 1 (how I rip media to my computer) he...
If only the container was an issue, you would have a direct stream which doesn’t impact quality, it just repacks it in a container that is compatible with the client.
You can see the transcode reason on the dashboard by clicking on the i symbol. Start playback on android TV, open jellyfin on your phone and you should see the transcode reason.
I think they’re in ASS format, according to the subtitle selection menu, embedded in the mkv file.
Is there no way to convert that to something that is supported?
It doesn’t help that this is Across the Spider Verse, so it’s not exactly what most video codecs are expecting. The playback quality with no subs is light-years ahead of the transcoded version.
Disable video transcoding for the account your client connects with. Then check the log to see why it needs to transcod it the video fails. Could be the bitrate limit. I’m not having issues and using the same client.
Checked on the dashboard as per the other comment.
It’s subtitles. I’m probably going to try Kodi as a client, see how that goes. Shame, because I quite like the Jellyfin client UI, it just doesn’t work with some files.
There are tons of reasons why Jellyfin may decide to transcode. In my experience browsers and players usually have the right video decoder support, but high efficiency audio codecs seem to trigger transcoding. It’s also possibly the specific video profile (colour depth, HDR, whatever) isn’t supported by the client even if the more common profiles are.
In some circumstances, enabling embedded subtitles can force a transcode. Using Bazarr to download separate subtitles helps prevent weird transcodes for some of the videos I’ve gathered on my server.
Jellyfin is almost perfect for me, I just need to find out why it decides to randomly transcode when it needs to do nothing when serving client.
Yeah, why is it doing that?
Especially when I’m using the Jellyfin Android TV client. The quality goes from ok to complete shit.
Does it not like mkv files?
If only the container was an issue, you would have a direct stream which doesn’t impact quality, it just repacks it in a container that is compatible with the client.
You can see the transcode reason on the dashboard by clicking on the i symbol. Start playback on android TV, open jellyfin on your phone and you should see the transcode reason.
Subtitle codec is not supported.
I think they’re in ASS format, according to the subtitle selection menu, embedded in the mkv file.
Is there no way to convert that to something that is supported?
It doesn’t help that this is Across the Spider Verse, so it’s not exactly what most video codecs are expecting. The playback quality with no subs is light-years ahead of the transcoded version.
I think YOU are in ASS format!
This comment isn’t helpful to anyone in anyway, but it IS funny
That’s what I was going for!
Disable video transcoding for the account your client connects with. Then check the log to see why it needs to transcod it the video fails. Could be the bitrate limit. I’m not having issues and using the same client.
Checked on the dashboard as per the other comment.
It’s subtitles. I’m probably going to try Kodi as a client, see how that goes. Shame, because I quite like the Jellyfin client UI, it just doesn’t work with some files.
There are tons of reasons why Jellyfin may decide to transcode. In my experience browsers and players usually have the right video decoder support, but high efficiency audio codecs seem to trigger transcoding. It’s also possibly the specific video profile (colour depth, HDR, whatever) isn’t supported by the client even if the more common profiles are.
In some circumstances, enabling embedded subtitles can force a transcode. Using Bazarr to download separate subtitles helps prevent weird transcodes for some of the videos I’ve gathered on my server.
My method to get around this is setting up a specific user account for my TV. In the user options you can disable transcoding
Yes! That’s my main issue with Jellyfin. So annoying.