Transcoding Query

[pxr5]

I have 2 instances of Jellyfin running. One is on a Synology NAS container with all transcoding settings turned off. The second in on an N100 mini PC with all relevant transcoding options set. Both are pointing at the same library. If I open 2 tabs on a browser and play the same file on both from each Jellyfin server I get different information message from each server. Are these messages effectively giving me the same information? I assumed each would be treated the same way whatever the transcoding setting are:

Jellyfin1



Jellyfin2

[TheDreadPirate]

Are they running the same version of Jellyfin? Also, one is saying that only the audio is transcoding (Direct stream) and the other is saying both audio and video are transcoding.

What browser are you using? The fact that it is transcoding TO HEVC tells me MS Edge, maybe?

[pxr5]

Yes both servers are the same version: 10.9.9. And yes Jellyfin clients are both running in separate tabs on MS Edge. Everything is exactly the same on both servers, except one has transcoding turned of, the other has it on.

EDIT - Just looked at the logs and they seem to be the same with transcode to mp4. So really it's only the message that differs due to the transcoding setting.

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share the jellyfin and ffmpeg logs for each via pastebin?

[pxr5]

I can't get the latest jellyfin logs from the second server - comes up with an error, but here are the rest:

J1l - https://pastebin.com/raw/nAUGAB14
J1F - https://pastebin.com/raw/AP8MYa46

J2l - xx
J2F - https://pastebin.com/raw/z85ruH1r

[TheDreadPirate]

Did you select/unselect the subs on one of the playbacks? On one playback it is burning in the subtitles and the other is not.

Code:

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 (h264) -> setparams:default (graph 0)
  Stream #1:0 (dvdsub) -> scale:default (graph 0)
  overlay_qsv:default (graph 0) -> Stream #0:0 (hevc_qsv)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> aac (libfdk_aac))

Code:

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> aac (libfdk_aac))

[pxr5]

Thanks for looking at this. It's not a problem for me, but I'm perplexed as to the information being provided is different.

When you mentioned subs I think you got it as I only had Opensubtitles on server 1. So, I enabled Opensubtitles on server 2 as well and checked all server and client settings between the 2 and they are exactly the same and the messages are still as in the first post. The only difference I can see is that server 2 gives the client an option of burning in subtitles while transcoding, whereas this is obviously not an option on server 1. The show being played has external sub/idx files so with server 2 these are being burnt in, hence the transcoding. I'm going to do some more tests with embedded and srt subs. Thanks again for your help.