Micro stutters / single frame drops

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@TheDreadPirate, OP states this issue also happens on MPV Shim some posts ago, which should be the same player in JMP.

I wonder if the container is also being changed since the playback info states "Direct streaming". Maybe that's caused by the audio being transcoded.

What are the specs of your Jellyfin server?

My apologies, I just tried with MPV Shim and it matches the experience on the Jellyfin Media Player -- and better -- this one has the stats showing, no dropped frames.
I am troubleshooting a few issues so I may have mistaken that I used this for the dropped frames testing previously. Or I might have enabled it and foolishly watched it in my browser without realizing I didn't enable the cast.

Hopefully knowing that these two players are good may give us some info as to why?

I did just confirm this in the dashboard while using Shim
> The source file is entirely compatible with this client and the session is receiving the file without modifications.

Regarding my settings, from top to bottom I have enabled in Transcoding:

Type: VAAPI
Enable decoding for: H264
Enable hardware encoding

"Throttle Transcodes" and "Delete segments" are both off.