2025-01-13, 08:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-13, 08:26 PM by jellyfin. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-01-13, 08:05 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Codec support varies greatly between clients and devices. And for audio some devices have a maximum number of channels they support. I'm assuming the audio is what is getting transcoded most of the time. I also wouldn't be surprised if the DVDs are also getting transcoded as many new devices don't support MPEG2 anymore.
We'd need to see your ffmpeg logs to figure out what is getting transcoded.
The DVDs are just ripped with makemkv, so they are not H264.
I need to re-encode them to avoid that, from what I read at https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support
My question above was about the audio codec - do you probably have a hint for me?
AC3?
AAC?
Some say AC3 is most compatible and best to avoid transcoding, but the above link says AAC is better.
At what bitrates, coming from DTS 5.1ch 768 or 1536 kbps?
Any recommendation?
Many thanks!