2025-03-21, 12:31 AM
I have added Jellyfin to our home network to provide media to our smart android tv's etc. The media had many years of history of family images, home movies etc. of the growing family, weddings trips and the like. I had a problem where some movies were heavily buffering in playback on the smart tv's but running okay on a desktop machine. Corrective suggestions online did not help in resolving the buffering. I also tried re-editing the movies to a lower quality format but was uncomfortable on the lower movie quality.
Comparing movies that were working and others buffering I noticed a common element. Larger MPEG4 codec files were buffering. MP4 files of H264 codec were all working okay. After re-editing the buffering movies to H264 mp4 movies all is working okay.
Result: Lot's of family movies (and laughs) now running on the smart tv's
Comparing movies that were working and others buffering I noticed a common element. Larger MPEG4 codec files were buffering. MP4 files of H264 codec were all working okay. After re-editing the buffering movies to H264 mp4 movies all is working okay.
Result: Lot's of family movies (and laughs) now running on the smart tv's