Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

• craig9@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• ridethisbike@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are containers that will transcode immediately upon import if that’s what you prefer.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t NEED to transcode, it plays in VLC just fine

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t watch on a smart tv, I watch on VLC.

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    • craig9@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      See my comment above, it could be a browser issue?

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