2024-01-09, 05:02 PM
just a couple things
browsers are not good jellyfin clients
chrome does not support mkv
you can attempt the listed codecs from chromium https://www.chromium.org/audio-video
but you will soon find out that mobile and desktop versions of chrome are no where near the same
this is the total point of jellyfin transcoding, so that it can serve every client with a compatible format "on-the-fly" from a single source file; re-encoding to suite the client completely defeats the purpose and you may as well just use a basic http server
browsers are not good jellyfin clients
chrome does not support mkv
you can attempt the listed codecs from chromium https://www.chromium.org/audio-video
but you will soon find out that mobile and desktop versions of chrome are no where near the same
this is the total point of jellyfin transcoding, so that it can serve every client with a compatible format "on-the-fly" from a single source file; re-encoding to suite the client completely defeats the purpose and you may as well just use a basic http server