2024-01-03, 02:10 PM
(2024-01-03, 12:52 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote:(2024-01-02, 06:20 PM)Manatee3866 Wrote:
- I don't want to use any hardware transcoding so how can I completely disable it so that Jellyfin never tries to transcode any media.
Disabling HWA will not prevent transcoding. All it will do is move the job of transcoding to the CPU (software encoding). If your Synology NAS has an iGPU, I would still enable it. HWA can always be toggled on or off in Jellyfin's dashboard.
I believe there are some settings in the dashboard for user settings that will prevent transcoding.
Dashboard -> Users -> (username) -> Uncheck "Allow * playback that requires transcoding"
even though transcoding will be disabled it will just mean those files cannot be played at all
the only way to not use transcoding is to use a client that supports all the media on the server and ensure all the media is compatible with all the clients