2025-03-23, 08:51 PM
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Thanks for the clarification! In that case, then since the server is the weakest link of my setup, i think i should be fine, or at least will deal with this problem if i ever run into it, which hopefully might not happen. And worst case i can still run the og files trough samba share with VLC. On that point tough, i also enabled UPNP in Jellyfin, shoudnt that also solve this issue too if it ever arises by the client side video player?
Also so srry, but one more thing i'd like to ask related this if you don't mind. Do you maybe know how well pre-transcoding works with the automatic Opensubtitles subtitle downloader plugin Jellyfin has? What i mean is, if i have the plugin turned on meanwhile Jellyfin only has access to the already transcoded files, will the downloaded subs force Jellyfin to re-transcode the video with the subtitles, or that shouldn't be an issue? Its not a big deal, its very very rare i fall back to that plugin, but would be great if i could also make this work too automatically with the right server configuration. Thanks again for the help!
(2025-03-23, 05:52 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Yes, Tdarr is a standalone app. No, Jellyfin cannot integrate with it automatically, AFAIK.
The point of pre-transcoding is so that the server doesn't have to do real-time transcoding. Keeping the videos at 1080P ensures client compatibility. Some older devices cannot decode higher resolution files.
If you want to keep 4K versions of your movies, what you could do is create separate libraries. One with your original 4K files for playback on clients you KNOW can direct play them. And then a 1080P library with your pre-transcoded versions.
Thanks for the clarification! In that case, then since the server is the weakest link of my setup, i think i should be fine, or at least will deal with this problem if i ever run into it, which hopefully might not happen. And worst case i can still run the og files trough samba share with VLC. On that point tough, i also enabled UPNP in Jellyfin, shoudnt that also solve this issue too if it ever arises by the client side video player?
Also so srry, but one more thing i'd like to ask related this if you don't mind. Do you maybe know how well pre-transcoding works with the automatic Opensubtitles subtitle downloader plugin Jellyfin has? What i mean is, if i have the plugin turned on meanwhile Jellyfin only has access to the already transcoded files, will the downloaded subs force Jellyfin to re-transcode the video with the subtitles, or that shouldn't be an issue? Its not a big deal, its very very rare i fall back to that plugin, but would be great if i could also make this work too automatically with the right server configuration. Thanks again for the help!