(2023-06-21, 07:45 PM)GalayZloy Wrote: I have home server with Jellyfin and local media storage (samba sharing), and I have modern powerful TV box which is able to decode any video I want. I need all the functions of the media library from Jelly, but so that the video is not transcoded in any way, and the files open like regular files over the network.
Is there a way to disable transcoding completely? Or does it require a separate fork?
You can disable transcoding for individual users under the user settings. There is no way to simply toggle transcoding for the entire server.
This being said, your use case doesn't really strike me as anything particularly demanding of some custom solution here. If, as you say, the client device supports basically any format, like an Nvidia Shield, then jellyfin will avoid transcoding where it can. There's no need to really make any adjustments. As long as your network is fast enough, and your client supports the encoded formats, jellyfin will avoid transcoding the file by default. If jellyfin is transcoding, it's because the client does not, in fact, support the encoding for one reason or another.