2025-11-09, 02:52 PM
I'm not at all familiar with the LG WebOS app so I can't say much about what media setup would work best for it. Is your LG TV wired or wifi? My LG C2 is wired, and only has a 100Mbps ethernet port, so that could be an issue unless you're using wifi. The Roku I usually use also only has 100Mbps ethernet. Generally I don't have much media with a bitrate above 20Mbps.
In your case - I would probably start with some non-4K/UHD media like 1080p Blurays, see how well a direct makemkv rip of one of those will play for you. But the simple way to get bitrates down would be to use Handbrake to re-encode the makemkv rips. Try encoding a chapter or two of a disc with the x265 encoder with a RF setting starting around 20-24 and see how the results turn out. Choose some media full of dark scenes, and some action scenes. Depending on the video cards available to you you may be able to get away with hardware encoding, maybe not.
But definitely the first thing to do IMO is to find out if you are transcoding with the media you already have. The Roku client has an option during playback to show if the media is direct playing, direct streaming, or transcoding, the LG client probably has something similar. But if not you can look at the log files produced on the jellyfin server. If you are transcoding, that's the first problem to deal with, because you are unlikely to be getting that full bitrate sent to the TV at that point.
In your case - I would probably start with some non-4K/UHD media like 1080p Blurays, see how well a direct makemkv rip of one of those will play for you. But the simple way to get bitrates down would be to use Handbrake to re-encode the makemkv rips. Try encoding a chapter or two of a disc with the x265 encoder with a RF setting starting around 20-24 and see how the results turn out. Choose some media full of dark scenes, and some action scenes. Depending on the video cards available to you you may be able to get away with hardware encoding, maybe not.
But definitely the first thing to do IMO is to find out if you are transcoding with the media you already have. The Roku client has an option during playback to show if the media is direct playing, direct streaming, or transcoding, the LG client probably has something similar. But if not you can look at the log files produced on the jellyfin server. If you are transcoding, that's the first problem to deal with, because you are unlikely to be getting that full bitrate sent to the TV at that point.