2025-08-22, 12:41 PM
This is incredibly depressing. After finally finding a working solution to the broken Schedules Direct situation after 18 months, I now find that Jellyfin just flat out refuses to play anything I record from HDHomerun and won't even try to transcode it either.
I've got a Synology DS224+ running Jellyfin Server 10.10.7 and I'm also running the latest Fire TV app - jellyfin-androidtv 0.18.11.
In playback settings I've got hardware acceleration enabled with Intel QuickSync (QSV). I've also got everything bar "AV1" in decoding checked and "Prefer OS Native DXVA or VA-API hardware decoders" unchecked as I read it on a random forum thread that it might have helped.
I've got "Enable Hardware encoding" checked with "Allow Encoding in HEVC Format". Everything else is pretty much standard.
Whatever I record from the EPG using the HDHomerun as the source records in "576i MPEG2VIDEO SDR" with an audio track of "MP2 Stereo".
When I go to the Fire TV app and try to play something, I'll get a black screen and then "Player error encountered, will re-try" but it still never plays or tries to transcode.
The playback bitrate is currently set to 100mbits but I've tried setting it to 200 and as low as 10 and nothing makes any difference.
I've (hopefully) attached a log from when I tried to play one of the files which seems to indicate problems with the codec. Jellyfin plays my other downloaded content just fine, just nothing I record.
https://pastebin.com/jEFfEhAv
Really hoping someone can help as this is my last throw of the dice with Jellyfin.
I've got a Synology DS224+ running Jellyfin Server 10.10.7 and I'm also running the latest Fire TV app - jellyfin-androidtv 0.18.11.
In playback settings I've got hardware acceleration enabled with Intel QuickSync (QSV). I've also got everything bar "AV1" in decoding checked and "Prefer OS Native DXVA or VA-API hardware decoders" unchecked as I read it on a random forum thread that it might have helped.
I've got "Enable Hardware encoding" checked with "Allow Encoding in HEVC Format". Everything else is pretty much standard.
Whatever I record from the EPG using the HDHomerun as the source records in "576i MPEG2VIDEO SDR" with an audio track of "MP2 Stereo".
When I go to the Fire TV app and try to play something, I'll get a black screen and then "Player error encountered, will re-try" but it still never plays or tries to transcode.
The playback bitrate is currently set to 100mbits but I've tried setting it to 200 and as low as 10 and nothing makes any difference.
I've (hopefully) attached a log from when I tried to play one of the files which seems to indicate problems with the codec. Jellyfin plays my other downloaded content just fine, just nothing I record.
https://pastebin.com/jEFfEhAv
Really hoping someone can help as this is my last throw of the dice with Jellyfin.