2024-08-23, 11:57 PM
I recently purchased a new 4k TV and thus started looking at adding 4K content.
I run a Jellyfin Ubuntu server that works wonderful!
I installed Jellyfin on the TV and it works great also!
I tried to watch a 4K on Jellyfin on the TV and it was BAD, yes It was a transcoding issue, the server was stating it was transcoding due to incompatible format for the TV. I then used the TV app to access the movie via the DLNA server installed on the same machine and the 4K video played great!! so the TV is compatible with the video format that was stored and was able to play it raw!
My question is, why did Jellyfin on the server even try to transcode and not just send the file raw like it does for almost all my other files? I do not have hardware transcoding enabled (might look at an upgrade later), so it was attempting software transcoding.
I run a Jellyfin Ubuntu server that works wonderful!
I installed Jellyfin on the TV and it works great also!
I tried to watch a 4K on Jellyfin on the TV and it was BAD, yes It was a transcoding issue, the server was stating it was transcoding due to incompatible format for the TV. I then used the TV app to access the movie via the DLNA server installed on the same machine and the 4K video played great!! so the TV is compatible with the video format that was stored and was able to play it raw!
My question is, why did Jellyfin on the server even try to transcode and not just send the file raw like it does for almost all my other files? I do not have hardware transcoding enabled (might look at an upgrade later), so it was attempting software transcoding.