Inconsistent playback, stuttering

[TheDreadPirate]

From the ffmpeg logs, the transcode is happening more than fast enough. Nothing out of the ordinary in the jellyfin log. Without more network testing, we can't rule that out. Packet loss? Is your VPN setup to only route LAN traffic through the VPN? Or all traffic? I know with OpenVPN you have to specify. If your VPN was only routing your LAN traffic for jellyfin but not the streaming services you might have been streaming netflix from a local CDN edge server. And Jellyfin from however far away you were from home.

But I don't know what country you were in or how restrictive their Internet is. We would need to do more testing to figure it out, but it isn't anything wrong with Jellyfin.