2025-11-01, 11:03 AM
Hi,
I am relatively new to jellyfin and have a small library by now. Most videos (mp4 and .mkv) load very fast and use about 2% of my CPU when being played. However, there are two .mkv files in particular. that when being played, need a while to load in properly (at first it stutters, and I can’t skip to a different time stamp). When asking a friend and ChatGPT they both told me that it could be a weird codec that need ffmpeg to be concerted live. Task Manager shows that ffmpeg command line uses al the CPU. Are there any commands in ffmpeg that can like reencode the video to make it jellyfin native? Tried some but none worked. Either the new video lagged like the old one or ffmpeg spat out an error that it doesn’t understand the command. If any of you guys have an solution that would be really nice. If there is anything that you need to know feel free to ask.
I am relatively new to jellyfin and have a small library by now. Most videos (mp4 and .mkv) load very fast and use about 2% of my CPU when being played. However, there are two .mkv files in particular. that when being played, need a while to load in properly (at first it stutters, and I can’t skip to a different time stamp). When asking a friend and ChatGPT they both told me that it could be a weird codec that need ffmpeg to be concerted live. Task Manager shows that ffmpeg command line uses al the CPU. Are there any commands in ffmpeg that can like reencode the video to make it jellyfin native? Tried some but none worked. Either the new video lagged like the old one or ffmpeg spat out an error that it doesn’t understand the command. If any of you guys have an solution that would be really nice. If there is anything that you need to know feel free to ask.