2025-01-14, 12:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-14, 12:21 AM by jellyfin. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-01-13, 11:53 PM)bitmap Wrote: Can you share either logs or what it says in the dashboard for "transcoding reason"? It will give you an idea of why it's transcoding. I think in the logs you could grep/search for "TranscodeReason" and find a key/value pair with a short description of the issue. Going to the dashboard and clicking on the "i" icon will also provide some clues or even the answer.
I made some more tests and as it seems, I can disable all transcoding settings, but not the remux option:
The Dashboard explains why, see the attached screenshots.
Even as the video is H264 and the audio is AAC, which can both be DirectPlayed (with the Jellyfin App on iPadOS) the container is MKV - and this seems to be the problem and the reason why numerous files get created in the ../transcodes folder.
I did not read that from the JF Codec pages, and thought that only H265 codec does not work within MKV containers.
That is a big problem for me.
Tomorrow I may just try and create an MP4 or MPV(?) container and repeat the test.
I need my content to work without any transcoding, but I need my language, the original language and any commentary - also all subtitles for those languages. And from what I remember, only MKV allows this.