Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming.

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Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

When trying to stream for 3-5 seconds everything is fine and working.
Then it's buffering again. And that repeats each time.

Tried to change transcoder:
From [Nvidia NVENC] with [H264,HEVC,MPEG2,VC1,VP8] to [None]
Same Issue.

I know it's not the network because tried with my Laptop Windows Jellyfin Install.
Everything works as expected. With no aggressive freezing.

Useful information :
[CLIENT]
Google TV [jellyfin app 0.18.6 release ]
Connected over wifi.

[Host]
TrueNas [Jellyfin 10.10.6] - First time setting any Linux machine.
GTX 970, Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz , 16Gb of memory.
Connected by cable to wifi.

Logs (I think this is the correct ones..) : https://pastebin.com/3cwK2ZgW

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

Should I re-install Jellyfin?

The closest thing I can find. But I don't run anything on the machine. Only jellyfin.
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-frequent-freezes-during-playback-in-jellyfin-10-9-1

And on another note: Running on another pc the same issue. (Not the problem with google Tv thing)

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-30

You are software transcoding, and very slowly. The 6700K does support hardware encoding. As does your GTX 970. Of the two I'd use the 6700K.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel/#official-docker

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

Okay, I changed to Intel QuickSync (QSV)
[*] - H264
[*] - HEVC
[*] - MPEG2
[*] - VC1
[*] - VP8

And
[*] - Intel Low-Power H.264 hardware encoder

Stil it freezes a bit. Any improvements I can do?
(But still much better than before.)

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

For some ref:
I have a laptop with
CPU Intel® Core™ i5-6300HQ CPU @2.30GHz
16GB DRR3
GTX 960M
Windows 11

And it runs without any freezes or lags, Is there i'm missing? What makes my laptop work better than the pc?

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - TheDreadPirate - 2025-03-30

Did you check "Enable hardware encoding"?

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

After I enabled it:
Playback failed due to a fatal player error

Code:
Device creation failed: -542398533.

Failed to set value 'vaapi=va:,vendor_id=0x8086,driver=iHD' for option 'init_hw_device': Generic error in an external library

Error parsing global options: Generic error in an external library

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

( I think I need the drivers... )

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

I can't figure it out, how to download the drivers.
I don't use containers for jellyfin app. (From what I know..)

RE: Freezing up after 3 seconds of streaming. - DesNie - 2025-03-30

I don't see an easy way to do it TrueNAS will use OpenMediavault.