2023-12-06, 01:01 PM
Both Kodi addons have options to forcibly transcode files (settings page for each attached). Neither of them will transcode by default, because generally Kodi has no need to transcode. It's playback code is resilient enough that it can play virtually anything we throw at it. That depends, of course, on your client hardware not being a potato and being able to keep up.
But I think the confusion here is when hardware acceleration is used. The client doesn't use hardware acceleration, period. Hardware acceleration on the server only comes into play when something is transcoding from the server. So if something doesn't request a transcode, the hardware acceleration you have set up in the server might as well not exist.
As for your widgets comment, there's a kinda barebones walkthrough for that in this issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellycon/issues/14. It's specific for embuary, but most skins are customizable in a similar way.
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But I think the confusion here is when hardware acceleration is used. The client doesn't use hardware acceleration, period. Hardware acceleration on the server only comes into play when something is transcoding from the server. So if something doesn't request a transcode, the hardware acceleration you have set up in the server might as well not exist.
As for your widgets comment, there's a kinda barebones walkthrough for that in this issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellycon/issues/14. It's specific for embuary, but most skins are customizable in a similar way.
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