2024-03-04, 11:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-03-04, 11:18 AM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 2 times in total.)
Did you follow @bitmap's second paragraph?
In general, you don't even need to do this. If you enable HWA, Jellyfin will refuse to play if your HWA is not set correctly. If you have HWA on and videos play fine, HWA works. Just make sure to check online which codecs your GPU can transcode and which it can't so that you turn those codecs off in Jellyfin's dashboard settings (will let the CPU hanlde the codecs the GPU can't handle).
(2024-03-04, 03:31 AM)bitmap Wrote: In general, start a piece of media in Jellyfin that needs transcoding (or artificially initiate it with the bitrate limiter in the web client) and check whether your CPU has spiked to near 100% or not. Kind of a kludge, but works pretty well as an indicator.What bitmap is saying here is that you should play a video that needs transcoding. You can force a transcode by choosing a lower bitrate. Play one transcode with HWA disabled. Then one with HWA enabled. If you look at your server's CPU usage while the transcode is playing, you should notice that the CPU utilization should be way higher when HWA is off. If you see that CPU usage is lower when HWA is on, HWA is working.
In general, you don't even need to do this. If you enable HWA, Jellyfin will refuse to play if your HWA is not set correctly. If you have HWA on and videos play fine, HWA works. Just make sure to check online which codecs your GPU can transcode and which it can't so that you turn those codecs off in Jellyfin's dashboard settings (will let the CPU hanlde the codecs the GPU can't handle).