Best environment and settings for Jellyfin Player on old i7 CPU (HD 4600))

[dakazze]

The 4765T does not have any HEVC decoding capability, so the CPU has to all the heavy lifting if you aren't transcoding to H264.

I'd need to see your jellyfin logs to figure out what is actually going on on the server side.

As for setting the audio to 5.1, the JMP client is likely also downmixing the audio locally when set to stereo.  Straining an already strained CPU.

Firefox may be handling things better because the server is transcoding everything server side and Firefox is just playing the video.

I know that the CPU is sub-par but I really dont think the issue is that it is too weak for the task as load stays pretty low all the time, even when playing 4k and the target is 1080p/60 Mbit.

Here is the log:
https://pastebin.com/F3MFELFN

Since you are the big boss here I need to take the chance and ask in general what your recommended transcoding settings are for my server and maybe also the client player since I dont know enough about these topics myself. The server has a xeon 2176m.