2025-01-30, 06:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-30, 06:01 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-01-30, 01:57 PM)yellow Wrote: I'm figuring that maybe it is playing in direct play so the heavy lifting is being done by the n100 instead of the server, so should jellyfin be transcoding on the server? I'm not sure if it is direct playing on my lg tv, so the difference in performance may be there, or could the tv be more powerful than the n100?Your Jellyfin server will only ever use the GPU when it needs to transcode something and you have HWA enabled.
Jellyfin is a media server. You're not watching on the server. The media server sends a video stream through the network and your client plays that.
Therefore, direct playing is handled by the client device you are using to watch.
If your client device can direct play something, it will receive the stream as is without modification.
If your client device can't direct play something, it will tell the Jellyfin server that it needs to transcode the stream so it can receive a stream it does understand.
When talking about GPUs on the Jellyfin server, it's to allow it to transcode a video for a client faster than what a CPU can provide.