FFMPEG path Jellyfin 10.8.13

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In the file

Code:

/etc/jellyfin/encoding.xml

(I believe the default (EDIT: for cent, I'm not positive where it would be in the case of the qnap package, but when you find it the options below should be what you want to change. When you first open your dashboard on the web app on the right there's a series of paths, it should be somewhere near where those default to), you've already said you found it so I am just posting as it took me a while to find it last time I went hunting) w/in the

Code:

<EncodingOptions .... >

block you'll want to include:

Code:

  <EncoderAppPath>/path/to/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPath>                
  <EncoderAppPathDisplay>/path/to/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPathDisplay>

You will need to restart your service in order for it to take.  This should still work in the current version, I'm not sure it will persist continuing forward (which I hope it does, but I recognize the whole "spacebar heating" issue).