How to best optimize JF for Intel ARC acceleration?

[TheDreadPirate]

Re-encoding your movies to AV1 would be strictly to save disk space and bandwidth, if either is an issue. It does not "optimize" Intel Arc. Your Arc GPU only comes into play when transcoding, which means that the client can't play the video as is. If your clients can't play AV1 directly, converting your media to AV1 would only result in more transcoding, which we should be trying to avoid.

The only thing you need to worry about is checking the correct boxes in Jellyfin (Dashboard > Playback). The codec check boxes represent what your GPU can DECODE. Use this table to determine which boxes you should be checking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding

Install the latest Intel driver, enable quick sync in Jellyfin, check the right codec boxes, enable tone mapping and low power encoding.