Comment on Reducing buffering when accessing Jellyfin via Tailscale
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When they are streaming is it transcoding?
If not, it should be reducing the stream quality to adjust to the available bandwidth.
If it is, it could be limited to your pc’s available resources. You may want to turn on hardware transcoding.
Jellyfin has logs that will tell you if its transcoding and how well it’s working.
Tailscale does add additional hops to their route and has bandwidth limitations but it should be fine for streaming.
SkinList@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I believe that jellyfin has been transcoding using jellyfin-ffmpeg. I do have logs labelled “FFmpeg.Transcode-…” which seem to look fine. I have just turned on hardware acceleration though. Is that what you meant by “hardware transcoding”?
Ill check to see if the buffering is improved and will let you know how it goes! Thanks for the advice!
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Yes, hardware transcoding = using hardware acceleration for decoding/re-encoding the video files. CPUs do it pretty slowly but the special decoder/encoder chips on GPUs (including integrated graphics GPUs) can handle that sort of task no sweat in most cases as long as you’ve got it preperly configured.