2024-03-05, 03:29 PM
I'm not talking about the client bitrate limit. It's set to auto as far as I know. And the whole issue is not related to the client as far as I understand it. I'm talking about the server-side limit for a user. My use case is this:
I use jellyfin on my 4k HDR TV, so the things I watch are usually 4k HDR. A friend who uses jellyfin remotely only has a 1080p display with no HDR. There are many videos that are watched by just him or me, so I can just get them in the appropriate quality/resolution, but there is also some overlap in what we watch.
Until now I had a bad upload speed so his account was limited on the server to 7 Mbps. This meant that every single media item was transcoded to meet this bitrate. Since the bitrate is low, the server managed it just fine. Now I have a high upload speed so I set his account limit to 100 Mbps (or could've left it unset, same outcome i suppose). So now he can watch a lot of things in direct stream with good quality which is great, but any media that transcodes for any reason, transcodes with extremely high bitrate like 100 Mbps, which my server can't handle so he can't watch it at all.
So what I'd need is a way to limit only transcoding. Actually same problem applies to me whenever I want to watch a 4k HDR movie on a computer or tablet screen. The transcoding is too much for the server to handle if it's not bitrate-limited.
I use jellyfin on my 4k HDR TV, so the things I watch are usually 4k HDR. A friend who uses jellyfin remotely only has a 1080p display with no HDR. There are many videos that are watched by just him or me, so I can just get them in the appropriate quality/resolution, but there is also some overlap in what we watch.
Until now I had a bad upload speed so his account was limited on the server to 7 Mbps. This meant that every single media item was transcoded to meet this bitrate. Since the bitrate is low, the server managed it just fine. Now I have a high upload speed so I set his account limit to 100 Mbps (or could've left it unset, same outcome i suppose). So now he can watch a lot of things in direct stream with good quality which is great, but any media that transcodes for any reason, transcodes with extremely high bitrate like 100 Mbps, which my server can't handle so he can't watch it at all.
So what I'd need is a way to limit only transcoding. Actually same problem applies to me whenever I want to watch a 4k HDR movie on a computer or tablet screen. The transcoding is too much for the server to handle if it's not bitrate-limited.