Yeah, I had/have problems with Jellyfin transcoding too.
Basically transcoding things that didn’t need it and wouldn’t transcode things that did need it.
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iopq@lemmy.world 5 days agoIt wanted me to organize my files and then it started to transcode them when I streamed. Not optimal for my use case
Yeah, I had/have problems with Jellyfin transcoding too.
Basically transcoding things that didn’t need it and wouldn’t transcode things that did need it.
There are containers that will transcode immediately upon import if that’s what you prefer.
I don’t NEED to transcode, it plays in VLC just fine
Your smart tv might not have VLC in it. That’s like saying “I don’t NEED financing, I can pay for my house all at once”, like, good for you, but you’re in a very privileged spot, and VLC is a beast so it’s really not fair to compare it with an embebed video player on a smart tv or something. You can disable transcoding btw, it’s enabled by default so that it’s more compatible, which makes absolute sense.
I don’t watch on a smart tv, I watch on VLC.
See my comment above, it could be a browser issue?
craig9@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I found that this was a problem for me too. It ended up being a codec or container format (maybe MKV container?) that was not supported in my browser (Firefox). I dug into it and realised that the latest version of FF which I could get if I used the Mozilla repository, completely solved the problem.