SOLVED: Movies dropping frames during direct playback

[Shirtninja]

There's a little trick if a film needs transcoding and the host machine is not powerful enough to do it in real-time.
Go to the Dashboard, then Playback, Transcoding. Almost at the bottom there's a setting Throttle Transcodes. Make sure it's not checked.

When you watch a film next time, start it, then take a break until it is transcoded far enough to be played without cutting out. You can see the transcode progress in the dashboard and assess how far you need to go, i.e. how long your break should be.

This is probably much easier than remuxing all your films. You may even get better hardware in the future, at which point all this conversion work would have been wasted.

Thanks, I will test that too.

Currently I have an Intel i5-8500 with Quick Sync enabled in Jellyfin so I doubt it is a hardware issue.  I would assume it is more likely the video files or possibly something I setup wrong with the software.