2025-07-21, 02:03 PM
What type of videos are you trying to playback? most movies and tv shows are not AV1, If it is something from a video site like YouTube there are ways to configure the downloading tools to avoid AV1.
You should try to avoid AV1 files if you can help it, it takes alot of cpu power to playback unless your device has a hardware decoder for AV1 which alot of stuff doesn't.
You can use HandBrake to convert the files to h265 or whatever codec you want to use. That way they will directly playback and it will look better than trying to transcode your videos on the fly in realtime.
As for setting your transcoding options. open Jellyfin in your browser and click the three lines in the top left corner, dashboard, playback, transcoding and you can change alot of the options here. its too much to really go into here but there is a help link at the top to read more about it.
So for transcoding to h264 is easiest h265 is harder and AV1 is hardest still, it will do h264 by default.
For the max resolution there is an option for screen resolution, did you try that? I don't know what resolution your monitors are at but I assume not 4k. I haven't personally used that option but it should work.
You should try to avoid AV1 files if you can help it, it takes alot of cpu power to playback unless your device has a hardware decoder for AV1 which alot of stuff doesn't.
You can use HandBrake to convert the files to h265 or whatever codec you want to use. That way they will directly playback and it will look better than trying to transcode your videos on the fly in realtime.
As for setting your transcoding options. open Jellyfin in your browser and click the three lines in the top left corner, dashboard, playback, transcoding and you can change alot of the options here. its too much to really go into here but there is a help link at the top to read more about it.
So for transcoding to h264 is easiest h265 is harder and AV1 is hardest still, it will do h264 by default.
For the max resolution there is an option for screen resolution, did you try that? I don't know what resolution your monitors are at but I assume not 4k. I haven't personally used that option but it should work.