(2024-01-29, 09:09 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: You can post the logs here for others to read and make sense of. Just make sure to comment out external IPs and sensitive paths/filenames.
You're only accessing your server through Tailscale? Are you not present in the physical location of your server? Or are you using Tailscale while being right next to the server?
Going off of my experience using Tailscale with Jellyfin (both installed on a Truenas Scale server), it takes a while for episodes to load into the player (with good connections on both sides no less).
It sounds like HWA is working for you. You stated that your CPU load increases with HWA off. With HWA being on, if it doesn't work, your streams would fail to even play.
Also make sure that you're using those commands to check for HWA ability through the container's shell. If you're doing so on Truenas's shell, that's not what the container might see. You have to open up the shell for the container itself, then run that command to see what the container sees.
I am only accessing it through Tailscale, the server is on another continent. But after more digging, I am thinking it could simply be a connection issue on the server side. I ran iperf3 and got an average bandwidth of 10.7 Mbits/sec, which, given the options for stream quality on Jellyfin, choosing anything over like 720p - 8 Mbps would start to be limited, right? Really unfortunate. And this does seem to be confirmed with testing. I know the server is connected directly via ethernet but it's not fiber or anything (yet). I'm not sure what else I could do at this point. I'm going to confirm by having someone use a normal computer to check speedtest results.
If it could still be something else I could post logs or double check what the Jellyfin container sees.
(2024-01-29, 09:16 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Are you running jellyfin with docker? Or the True Chart app?
I believe it's technically the Charts app, but it's found in the standard "TRUENAS" catalog now, with the url being https://github.com/truenas/charts.git. I believe in the past you had to add a different catalog to get it.