SOLVED: Failed to transcode to HEVC on mac mini

[hczxpaul]

By the way the   <EncoderAppPathDisplay>ffmpeg</EncoderAppPathDisplay> is only how the path is displayed, you need to modify   <EncoderAppPath>ffmpeg</EncoderAppPath> as well.

If you are using homebrew's ffmpeg, then it will look like thie:


  <EncoderAppPath>/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPath>
  <EncoderAppPathDisplay>/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPathDisplay>


Thank you, I tried this and it worked, hevc transcoding works now with CPU usage around 170%~

The thing is that this line

<EncoderAppPath>/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPath>

is not displayed in the encoding.xml by default, so I have to manully add this line by before the <EncoderAppPathDisplay> line.

So both of @TheDreadPirate and @gnattu are right, Jellyfin's default ffmpeg doesn't work for HEVC and required an apple silicon native ffmpeg build.