2023-10-01, 10:48 AM
(2023-09-30, 10:11 AM)Venson Wrote: RPi is just so underpowered that even a single transcode will bring it to its knees.
Which is why I and many others are looking for ways to completely bypass transcoding. Because transcoding is the single thing the RPi cannot handle. For everything else, it's more than adequate. And it's cheap to buy and cheap to use. And the easiest way to bypass transcoding is by storing multiple versions. And jellyfin offers the ability to do just that for exactly that reason.
Quote:To be absolutly clear here: Jellyfin is __not__ here to replace any streaming service. Jellyfin is a __HOME__ media server, not an online streaming replacement.
Ok, I'm not going to be disrespectful and tell you to get of your high horse because I understand why you are saying that. But I suspect you know very well that the majority (if not all) of Jellyfin users use it as a replacement for streaming services. Heck, the Jellyfin documentation only talks about movies/tv series/movie databases/theme song database/fanart etc. It is targeted at people wanting to store just that. If it were targeted at people wanting to store their home movies, it would have a much different feature set. Much different.
Quote:As Skribe already said, you are free to implement a feature that automatically selects the right version into the server and PR it. No one bothered with that yet so it is not there. We (the jellyfin team) are not the only ones working on Jellyfin, everyone can and many people outside the regular contributes do. There is no general red line, what the team implements or dont. Everyone is free to work on everything they like to and if they dont have time or dont feel like it, they will not to anything at all. Jellyfin is a FOSS project after all.
I'm not entirely sure if I hit a nerve there. English is not my native language so I'm not really good at reading between the lines here. But it feels like you think I condemn the fact this feature isn't implemented yet. I don't. I just thought it was curious since it was requested so many times in the past. And the functionality to do it is already in place.
And again, I would love to do it myself but I have never used github. So it would take quite some time to get familiar with it. Probably a lot longer than it would take me to implement the feature. That's why I asked if someone could point me in the right direction where to start. I just want to work on that small feature, and I really don't want to learn the complete inner workings of Jellyfin and/or github first. But if that's what it takes, that's also fine.