SOLVED: Direct Play Issues for Fire TV Stick 4K Max

[TheDreadPirate]

Code:

( PlayMethod=Transcode, TranscodeReason=ContainerBitrateExceedsLimit )

Looks like there are possibly two issues.  As far as I can tell, your GPU does not support transcoding 10 bit color AND HDR video.  Looks like one or the other but not both.  And that the above log line says that it is transcoding in the first place due to some bitrate limit.  Are you globally limiting bit rates?  Or limiting bitrate to this particular device?

So after browsing my Jellyfin Android TV app settings, I do see that the Max Streaming Bitrate in the Playback settings option was set to Auto. Do you happen to know how Auto is defined?

I will try changing it to 120Mbit/s (the highest allowed). Hopefully my fire tv stick 4k max can direct play. This movie file is like 18Mbit bit rate.

Looking at the Fire Stick specs, it definitely should be able to direct play.  I'm wondering if this is a client side bug or something.  Let us know if specifying the max bit rate changes anything.  I don't have any 10 bit HDR content, but when I play content via the Android TV app on my Chromecast with Google TV it direct streams.

Also, is "Prefer fMP4-HLS Media Container" checked in the Playback settings of your Fire Stick?