Playback slow to start, randomly stopping

[SierraThePotato]

Hello,

I am having trouble finding out what is the problem with my Jellyfin install. Sometimes it works flawlessly, other times it takes minutes to start the stream, and even then, it stops again after a few seconds. Hardware should be plenty, and when checking utilization nothing is maxing out.

Setup:
Install method: linuxserver.io docker container, in a Debian VM running in Proxmox.
CPU: i5-8500T, 4 cores allocated to the VM
RAM: 20GB allocated to the VM
OS disk: NVME SSD, this is where the docker container is installed, config and cache are here
Media disk: 2TB Seagate HDD, this is where the media files are stored
External traffic is handled by a Caddy reverse proxy, but the issue persists when I use the direct IP over Tailscale. It's been a while since I used it on the local network, so I don't know about that

Hardware transcoding is enabled, although I'm not sure if it is working.
I can provide the docker compose if that helps.

Here are the log files:

  log_20250117.txt (Size: 54.97 KB / Downloads: 61)

  FFmpeg.DirectStream-2025-01-17_11-30-06_5ac9c1f4415b9250c835e09fcd7c9224_91fc7659.txt (Size: 65.78 KB / Downloads: 62)