SOLVED: Intel A380 AV1 HW Transcoding Issues?

[toytown]

I would assume this is a bug as intel_gpu_top shouldn't be showing any activity from jellyfin unless its hardware (gpu) transcoding.  However to be 100% sure, turn off AV1 encoding, start a movie that needs transcoding, then grab the FFMPEG log for that playback and paste it here.

Then turn on AV1 encoding, playback the same content and again paste the new log here.

but admittedly it only seems to show activity on some of the content, but not on others.

Not all content needs transcoding, if the client has the capabilities (codec support) and has no bandwidth limitations it will just direct play/remux.