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.

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.

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:

1. How are people on Firefox not having to transcode? Do they just not use mkv’s or h265? Looking at the documentation, Firefox will need to do transcode, which lines up with what I’m seeing on my end.
2. I need to figure out how to get iGPU to work so transcoding doesn’t hurt the server so much.

Big Buck Bunny direct plays. It’s a .mp4 container and h264, so that likely has to do with it. My understanding was most people would be using h265 mkv files for content that’s 1080p or higher. It plays fine on Google Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox, so I’m a bit confused how people can be using Firefox and not have transcoding, unless they avoid h265 and mkv.

Everything I play has “The container is not supported”. I use mkv’s mostly. In this example, the audio codec is not supported as well.

Intel processor N100? Isn’t hardware acceleration for GPUs? Or am I misunderstanding.

Does it support playing mkv’s? I see container not supported and it transcodes.

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.

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.