2025-07-22, 04:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-07-22, 04:17 PM by justasking2025. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hello,
I'd like someone to confirm my findings while I was trying to solve some issues with my Jellyfin setup.
So, I have a JF server on Synology DS218+ and I use JF Android TV client on a cheap, low-end Chinese Android TV box.
Some videos play just fine. Others lag extremely badly. I tried to investigate for the last 2 days and discovered that the files lagging are HEVC.265 and that my server machine is not powerful enough to transcode those. So I disabled transcoding and that resulted in the videos playing fine, but then the machine's CPU utilization would be 99% or 98%; I apparently can't go this way for repeatedly long periods of time.
So, then I tried to use an external player on the Jellyfin Android TV client, but the default external player would play no sound, the video would run smoothly though. I also installed VLC and MPV players to use as external players with the JF client, but in those cases the sound would be fine, but the video would show nothing except for 1 scrambled frame every 20 seconds or so.
My questions are:
1. One solution would be to get a better server (more powerful hardware), so it could transcode HEVC.265, correct?
2. Using 99% CPU with no transcoding is bad because it would wear the CPU down after a while, correct?
3. The external players (such as VLC and MPV) are playing bad video probably because the client machine's (the cheap Android box) hardware is too weak, correct?
4. If number 3 is correct, getting a more powerful Android TV device could solve the problem, correct?
I'd like someone to confirm my findings while I was trying to solve some issues with my Jellyfin setup.
So, I have a JF server on Synology DS218+ and I use JF Android TV client on a cheap, low-end Chinese Android TV box.
Some videos play just fine. Others lag extremely badly. I tried to investigate for the last 2 days and discovered that the files lagging are HEVC.265 and that my server machine is not powerful enough to transcode those. So I disabled transcoding and that resulted in the videos playing fine, but then the machine's CPU utilization would be 99% or 98%; I apparently can't go this way for repeatedly long periods of time.
So, then I tried to use an external player on the Jellyfin Android TV client, but the default external player would play no sound, the video would run smoothly though. I also installed VLC and MPV players to use as external players with the JF client, but in those cases the sound would be fine, but the video would show nothing except for 1 scrambled frame every 20 seconds or so.
My questions are:
1. One solution would be to get a better server (more powerful hardware), so it could transcode HEVC.265, correct?
2. Using 99% CPU with no transcoding is bad because it would wear the CPU down after a while, correct?
3. The external players (such as VLC and MPV) are playing bad video probably because the client machine's (the cheap Android box) hardware is too weak, correct?
4. If number 3 is correct, getting a more powerful Android TV device could solve the problem, correct?