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Do you use mpv shim? How do you avoid transcoding? In my opinion, that is why we can't rely on the browser client and require a dedicated application.
I also simply watch in my browser when on desktop.
If it needs to transcode, then it transcodes. I don't see the need to put extra effort in trying to avoid it.
What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding? Have you changed anything?
My server has a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and a single transcode about maxes it out on CPU usage. Even when playing a 1080p file. This can't be normal if others are just "dealing" with transcodes, unless everyone is using hardware acceleration. I'm using Firefox as the client.
Edit: I did turn off Allow encoding in HEVC format and Allow encoding in AV1 format and things are a bit better. Still not sure how people avoid transcoding on Firefox though.
I think that's what (almost) everyone does. My little N100 works just fine with QSV.
@qjkxbmwvz @gccalvin Not using HW accel. Ryzen 3600G. Even 4K transcodes work fine
Intel processor N100? Isn't hardware acceleration for GPUs? Or am I misunderstanding.
Not necessarily, in this case they're referring to Intel's QuickSync (Video) - or QSV for short, which is Intel's way of doing video encoding/decoding on dedicated hardware in the CPU. On the AMD side, there is Video Core Next although I'm not very well versed with the video encode/decode side of things so I'm not sure how it stacks up with QSV.
Unfortunately, Video Core Next isn't listed in Jellyfin's hardware acceleration list. I tried AMD iGPU passthrough with VA-API, but ran into issues. It seems I need to figure out:
Does that even have an APU? I don't think it would have any transcoding hardware without one.
You may be right going off this.
Also this is hilarious:
Looks like I'll be looking into a dedicated gpu, and AMD isn't recommended, so it'll be Nvidia.
Before you run off and get Nvidia, take serious consideration of the Intel ARC line. They're relatively cheap and have great transcoding performance. They're supported by Linux out of the box, and I had no problem getting docker passthrough enabled. Unlike Nvidia the drivers don't have built-in limits for how many simultaneous streams you can transcode.
Yeah, I've started looking into ARC as that looks like what Jellyfin supports the best. Would you mind telling me what ARC you are using and how many simultaneous transcodes you've been able to handle? It looks like the Pro A-Series is the best.