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Odd Direct Play / Transcoding Issue - bolgnacake - 2024-10-04
Hello all,
Hoping to get some insight into the problem I'm experiencing. My networking and media knowledge is limited, but I'm learning!
I have a 4K LG C2 OLED, Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max, and a Sony Z9F 3.1ch Sound Bar w/Dolby Atmos.
I'm seeing issues around the "Max streaming bitrate" Jellyfin option, which I initially left at the default of 100 Mbit/s. Some 4k content plays great. Night of the Living Dead, 4K HEVC w/burned-in subtitles - Jellyfin reports direct play, no issues.
Now the following two, I would expect direct play because I believe my hardware should support the video and audio codecs.
Halloween 4K Dolby Vision DTS Stereo - crashes.
Halloween II 4K Dolby Vision DTS Stereo - plays but transcodes due to video exceeding bitrate limit.
The following is where things start to get really interesting. Titles I would expect direct play from and confirmed, are in fact, direct play; however, while I receive audio, my TVs screen is black - no display at all and no media options from Jellyfin either (fast fwd, stop, etc)
Halloween III 4K Dolby Vision DTS Stereo
Friday the 13th 4K Dolby Vision DTS 5.1
Jaws 4K Dolby Vision DTS Stereo
I've done a lot of experimenting and currently the option that "works", is to drop my "Max streaming bitrate" option down to 70 Mbit/s, which triggers transcoding in all the problem titles. While those titles play fine transcoded, it still irks me that I have to transcode and I'm not sure why they have to.
For what it's worth, I have Verizon Fios gigabit Internet. My speed tests to outside networks seem fine (results = 524mbps down / 892mbps up), though my playback is internal only - so I'm not sure if I'm hitting some bottleneck? My Fire Stick TV is Wifi 5Ghz, very close to the Fios router, and my Jellyfin server is a mini-PC that is hard-wired ethernet to the router.
Since a lot of this is new to me, I'm looking for insight, because maybe my assumptions on codecs w/my specific hardware is wrong, or understanding of my networks capabilities (bitrate?) are off, or maybe there are some server options I should focus on (I have tried many)? Thanks in advance for reading.
RE: Odd Direct Play / Transcoding Issue - theguymadmax - 2024-10-04
There's a show stopping bug with the Fire TV Stick 4k and Jellyfin Android TV client with media that has both DV and HDR10+ metadata.