2023-12-06, 09:23 AM
(2023-12-05, 01:55 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote:(2023-12-05, 12:08 PM)pixel24 Wrote: If you need hardware acceleration you have to use JellyCon. The "normal" Jellyfin plugin cannot do this,
incorrect; neither addon has anything to do with the actual playback which is done by kodi so hardware acceleration is possible with both
these only allow kodi to communicate with the jellyfin server, the jellyfin has extra functionality to bring content directly into the kodi database
That surprises me. I installed an nVIDIA Quadro Pro in my server some time ago and set up the hardware acceleration as described in the documentation.
On a Kodi client with the normal Jellyfin plugin, the playback of H265 / 4k media generated a constant CPU load of 100%. The device became very warm. I then asked on github and was told that the normal Jellyfin plugin does not support hardware acceleration or not in conjunction with the Core i3 in my Kodi client. See here:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/9774
I then removed the Jellyfin plugin and installed and set up JellyCon. Apart from that, nothing else was changed and the same movie was played. Now there was no significant CPU load when playing on the client.
This made the statement seem logical to me.
with best
pixel24