2024-11-06, 01:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-11-06, 01:07 AM by TechOwl. Edited 2 times in total.)
After doing some messing around, I've narrowed down the problem a little bit. The video freezing only happens when H.264 content is being transcoded to H.265. If I disable H.265 transcoding globally on my Jellyfin server, there are no issues. That's why the second episode that I posted worked fine, because it was already H.265 content which means it didn't need to be transcoded at all. Shout out to the guy who responded to my GitHub issue saying he was having the same issue related to transcoding. Reminder that H.265 transcoding works fine on any other device, its just this particular combination of Amlogic SOC, Jellyfin Android TV App, and transcoding (in this case H.264 -> H.265). Changing devices, apps, and transcoding formats resolves the issue.
The only issue now though is why transcoding causes an issue only on the Jellyfin Android TV app? I see no reason why this issue wouldn't occur when using Kodi and Jellycon. From what I understand, it does the same transcoding, its literally just displaying it in a different app.
Also, seems like I'm not the only one having this issue:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...ssues/4159
The only issue now though is why transcoding causes an issue only on the Jellyfin Android TV app? I see no reason why this issue wouldn't occur when using Kodi and Jellycon. From what I understand, it does the same transcoding, its literally just displaying it in a different app.
Also, seems like I'm not the only one having this issue:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...ssues/4159