2025-01-05, 09:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-05, 09:43 PM by DenSilent. Edited 2 times in total.)
(2025-01-05, 06:30 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: My PC has a stereo setup. USB DAC -> stereo headphone amp + pre-amp -> 2.0 studio monitor speakers. JMP is set to stereo for max audio channels. For clarification, I have stereo set in both the "playback" settings and the "client settings" with pipewire as the output device (my desktop is Linux).
This results in a proper client side downmix.
Well, it is good that you have great results with Pipewire and a Linux client.
My parent's PC works under Windows with stereo analogue output to an amplifier and perceived loudness of the centre channel audio (where usually all the dialogues are) with mostly default JMP settings (output set to "stereo", not "auto") about 2 to 3 times lower than at my home with a multichannel audio system. And because other sounds have about the same loudness (=much louder), you cannot fix this just by turning up the volume.
These downmix settings in Jellyfin server with a selection of different algorithms—they exist for a reason. And they work really well. If we could use them with JMP - this will fix the problem. But we cannot
>>No transcoding, the video starts immediatly. But now the voices are less loud than the other sounds
Yes. JMP bult-in downmix produces very quiet voices. When transcoding, downmix is done by server, not JMP, and it is much better.
>>Is there a way, to have a "normal" sound with clear voices easily. (without reencoding the video
Never used JMP on Android, maybe someone here can provide better assistance. But if android client allows custom MPV settings like a desktop client, you can use my settings from earlier posts. If not, I think you have to use some external player with better downmix algorithms.