Occasional video stuttering and broken subs rendering

[chicocheco]

Hi guys, I love the project and am a huge fan. We watch on an old laptop (like 10 y/o or more) and at the beggining it would suddenly get really slow while watching a show, video starting to stutter. After enabling HW decoding it got almost perfect but still sometimes it has hiccups. Like as if it dropped a few frames while the audio track plays smoothly. Is there anything I can do about that? I would love to have a smooth experience. Would buying some kind of TV stick, dedicated for this purpose only, for HDMI port help?

Another issue is that sometimes in Jellyfin Media Player after starting a playback it crams all subtitles to the bottom left, like all letters on top of each other. I have to turn the subs off and on to fix that. That is probably a bug only in JMP, not web client.

Thank you!

[TheDreadPirate]

The subtitle issue is a known bug. Toggling full screen will reset the subs.

If you have an older and or underpowered laptop, using the browser might be a better experience. But only if your server is pretty capable and can transcode.

Jellyfin Media Player should direct play everything, whether your client is capable of smoothly playing the video or not. Depending on your laptop's specs, it may not even have the hardware decoders for most modern codecs and it is software decoding everything.