2025-07-20, 04:19 AM
I don't mean to necro, but I'm in the same boat. I had an old Xiaomi Box S which worked great, but not quite for 4K stuff. So I finally picked up a mini PC, also a GMKTek Mini PC with an Intel N100 Processor and 16gig DDR5 RAM. Media is played off of network attached hard drives connected to a Windows VM which runs the JF server. 1080 content plays fine, but feels just a bit odd, like it's playing at 22 frames instead of 24 or something. But is mostly fine. Anything 4K, however, plays at like 6 frames per second. Direct playing. But anything and everything plays perfectly fine in VLC. Additionally, when attempting to play 4K content in Jellyfin Media Player, the whole UI goes super slowly, it almost feels like the UI itself is running at ~6FPS, making it hard to change options, hit back, etc.
Things I've tried: changing whether to transcode DV or not (I read that could be an issue), changing Hardware Decoding to any of the 3 options (per this thread), and checking the box for "deinterlacing," which was a solution I read on another thread about the UI being sluggish. But everything works fine *remotely*. I have a remote streaming limit of 10Mbps, and at the time of the log I'm sending, I had 2 or 3 other people watching other media remotely on different accounts. But the problem occurs even if it is just me watching one thing. My network speed is 1000Mbps DL, 300Mbps UL. Display is a BenQ 4K projector, I could get the model if needed. But again, everything works fine (and has always worked fine) just pulling up the file on my mapped network drive in Windows and directly playing it with VLC.
Here is the pastebin, I've attempted to truncate it to the last 30 minutes of the night, or so. The 4K content I was attempting to watch was the film "The Meg." I have the whole log from that date, let me know if there is anything earlier in the day you'd need from the whole log, it's like 2.5MB.
Things I've tried: changing whether to transcode DV or not (I read that could be an issue), changing Hardware Decoding to any of the 3 options (per this thread), and checking the box for "deinterlacing," which was a solution I read on another thread about the UI being sluggish. But everything works fine *remotely*. I have a remote streaming limit of 10Mbps, and at the time of the log I'm sending, I had 2 or 3 other people watching other media remotely on different accounts. But the problem occurs even if it is just me watching one thing. My network speed is 1000Mbps DL, 300Mbps UL. Display is a BenQ 4K projector, I could get the model if needed. But again, everything works fine (and has always worked fine) just pulling up the file on my mapped network drive in Windows and directly playing it with VLC.
Here is the pastebin, I've attempted to truncate it to the last 30 minutes of the night, or so. The 4K content I was attempting to watch was the film "The Meg." I have the whole log from that date, let me know if there is anything earlier in the day you'd need from the whole log, it's like 2.5MB.