2 hours ago
Hi everyone,
Hopefully this is the right place to ask, and hopefully this doesn't become too wall-of-text
I've been working on a Jellyfin setup and home and have now got nearly everything working - including SyncPlay both remotely and locally. I just have one final nut to crack.
I would like to make use of my Chromecast and some video files play fine. Others start to stutter, and it seems the problem is to do with transcoding. The files are hosted locally on a NAS that has a Realtek rtd1296 CPU. This can technically do hardware decoding, but I get the impression this isn't very well supported by Jellyfin, so I'm relying on software transcoding - and the damn thing can't keep up. There are two rabbit holes I could do down to fix this.
One is presume I'm wrong about Jellyfin supporting hardware transcoding on this CPU. I haven't yet found settings that work, but if there is a setup that actually works with this CPU, that might be the easiest solution.
The other possibility is to try and offload transcoding to another machine on my network. I have come across some information on sending this out to a Linux machine using a tool called rffmpeg. The Reddit thread is about 5 years old, so it might be a bit old. I could go down this path because I do have an old Linux machine I could use, though it's not my preferred setup - that machine only gets powered up occasionally and runs over wifi, so that may present latency issues.
What might be preferable is seeing if I can do the same thing but offload it to a Windows machine. My primary machine is Windows and both connects via ethernet and runs nearly all the time, so is a better candidate. The only issue is I can't really find any information on whether someone has actually made that work, so I was going to see if anybody had actually done this and could offer some advice.
Any help would be appreciated
Hopefully this is the right place to ask, and hopefully this doesn't become too wall-of-text
I've been working on a Jellyfin setup and home and have now got nearly everything working - including SyncPlay both remotely and locally. I just have one final nut to crack.
I would like to make use of my Chromecast and some video files play fine. Others start to stutter, and it seems the problem is to do with transcoding. The files are hosted locally on a NAS that has a Realtek rtd1296 CPU. This can technically do hardware decoding, but I get the impression this isn't very well supported by Jellyfin, so I'm relying on software transcoding - and the damn thing can't keep up. There are two rabbit holes I could do down to fix this.
One is presume I'm wrong about Jellyfin supporting hardware transcoding on this CPU. I haven't yet found settings that work, but if there is a setup that actually works with this CPU, that might be the easiest solution.
The other possibility is to try and offload transcoding to another machine on my network. I have come across some information on sending this out to a Linux machine using a tool called rffmpeg. The Reddit thread is about 5 years old, so it might be a bit old. I could go down this path because I do have an old Linux machine I could use, though it's not my preferred setup - that machine only gets powered up occasionally and runs over wifi, so that may present latency issues.
What might be preferable is seeing if I can do the same thing but offload it to a Windows machine. My primary machine is Windows and both connects via ethernet and runs nearly all the time, so is a better candidate. The only issue is I can't really find any information on whether someone has actually made that work, so I was going to see if anybody had actually done this and could offer some advice.
Any help would be appreciated