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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Pixelation and blocky artifacts in video

     
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    Pixelation and blocky artifacts in video

    Pixelation and blocky artifacts in video
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    #1
    Yesterday, 09:49 PM
    Hi everybody,

    I setup my Jellyfin installation recently. I am using a mini pc with Intel Alder Lake-N100 CPU for my Ubuntu (noble) server. I've setup hardware encoding (HEVC) and decoding using Intel QSV. Everything works well in that regard. I have some videos which look very bad on Jellyfin with significant amount pixelated blocks and other artifacts showing up in video. I am also finding the video to have less contrast. Turning on tone mapping doesn't seem to help. The video in the original format is AV1 which is getting transcoded to HEVC.

    Video on Jellyfin:
       

    Video on VLC:
       

    I understand due to transcoding and streaming there will be some compression artifacts but this seems a bit much? My encoder preset is on veryslow

    Here is the mediainfo:
    General
    Format                                  : Matroska
    Format version                          : Version 4
    File size                                : 1.89 GiB
    Duration                                : 1 h 0 min
    Overall bit rate                        : 4 517 kb/s
    Frame rate                              : 23.976 FPS
    Encoded date                            : 2024-08-08 15:23:46 UTC
    Writing application                      : mkvmerge v82.0 ('I'm The President') 64-bit
    Writing library                          : libebml v1.4.5 + libmatroska v1.7.1 / Lavf61.1.100

    Video
    ID                                      : 1
    Format                                  : AV1
    Format/Info                              : AOMedia Video 1
    Format profile                          : Main@L4.0
    Codec ID                                : V_AV1
    Duration                                : 1 h 0 min
    Bit rate                                : 3 865 kb/s
    Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
    Height                                  : 1 080 pixels
    Display aspect ratio                    : 16:9
    Frame rate mode                          : Constant
    Frame rate                              : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
    Color space                              : YUV
    Chroma subsampling                      : 4:2:0
    Bit depth                                : 10 bits
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                      : 0.078
    Stream size                              : 1.62 GiB (86%)
    Default                                  : Yes
    Forced                                  : No
    Color range                              : Limited
    Color primaries                          : BT.709
    Transfer characteristics                : BT.709
    Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709

    Audio #1
    ID                                      : 2
    Format                                  : Opus
    Codec ID                                : A_OPUS
    Duration                                : 1 h 0 min
    Bit rate                                : 299 kb/s
    Channel(s)                              : 6 channels
    Channel layout                          : L R C Lb Rb LFE
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
    Frame rate                              : 50.000 FPS (960 SPF)
    Compression mode                        : Lossy
    Stream size                              : 128 MiB (7%)
    Title                                    : OPUS 5.1
    Language                                : English
    Default                                  : Yes
    Forced                                  : No

    Audio #2
    ID                                      : 3
    Format                                  : Opus
    Codec ID                                : A_OPUS
    Duration                                : 1 h 0 min
    Bit rate                                : 171 kb/s
    Channel(s)                              : 2 channels
    Channel layout                          : L R
    Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
    Frame rate                              : 50.000 FPS (960 SPF)
    Compression mode                        : Lossy
    Stream size                              : 73.2 MiB (4%)
    Title                                    : Commentary by creator David Chase and actor Peter Bogdanovich
    Language                                : English
    Default                                  : No
    Forced                                  : No

    Text #1
    ID                                      : 4
    Format                                  : PGS
    Muxing mode                              : zlib
    Codec ID                                : S_HDMV/PGS
    Codec ID/Info                            : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
    Duration                                : 56 min 37 s
    Bit rate                                : 39.2 kb/s
    Frame rate                              : 0.492 FPS
    Count of elements                        : 1672
    Stream size                              : 15.9 MiB (1%)
    Title                                    : English
    Language                                : English
    Default                                  : No
    Forced                                  : No

    Text #2
    ID                                      : 5
    Format                                  : PGS
    Muxing mode                              : zlib
    Codec ID                                : S_HDMV/PGS
    Codec ID/Info                            : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
    Duration                                : 57 min 0 s
    Bit rate                                : 40.8 kb/s
    Frame rate                              : 0.520 FPS
    Count of elements                        : 1778
    Stream size                              : 16.6 MiB (1%)
    Title                                    : English (SDH)
    Language                                : English
    Default                                  : No
    Forced                                  : No

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    #2
    Today, 01:17 AM
    Are you using hardware acceleration? If so, the preset doesn't matter according to documentation. I'd hope you're using quicksync with a supported iGPU like that, but I'm not entirely clear on what you're hoping to achieve...
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    #3
    Today, 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: Today, 06:32 AM by UltraBorg.)
    I have setup hardware acceleration for encoding and decoding using Intel QSV. I've verified it is working properly. As for what I am trying to achieve, I just don't like seeing those blocks of colors that you can see on the first image (Try turning up your brightness and contrast maybe?). It may not look bad on screenshot but it is extremely distracting when watching the stream. Hoping there is some way to get rid of it
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    #4
    5 hours ago
    JF 10.11 has improvements for QSV encoding quality. You can try it when it is released.

    If it doesn't improve, you'll need to wait until we switch to 10-bit HEVC/AV1 encoding in the future, which will significantly improve encoding efficiency.
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    #5
    4 hours ago
    Is there any other configuration I can tweak to make it better? I am ok with a bit of buffering if required. The newer media seems to be fine but the old ones with film grain are unwatchable
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