2023-11-01, 02:39 AM
Got an i7 PC running a jellyfin server and trying to play them on firestick. Some movies play fine, but others freeze, crash, skip, etc... For example, one movie always freezes at the exact same frame and the audio continues. I tried Kodi, Jellyfin (with different players), Jellyfin plugin for Kodi, and even VLC over Samba. It's always almost the same problem.
On the other hand, playing the movie on VLC on a desktop computer over Samba works perfectly fine. Playing in the browser on the same computer works as well.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to jellyfin, but I think it must be a firestick problem. The codec is probably one that is supposed to play natively on the firestick, so regardless of what program I use on the firestick, the server just feeds me the raw file and the video processing is done on the firestick where it fails to work properly. So I was wondering: is it possible to force the jellyfin server to always transcode or set it up so the firestick always requests transcoded video to prevent the bad transcoding on the firestick?
Only other thing I can think of is manually converting each file via handbrake to something that is more compatible and friendly, but I'd rather avoid that if possible.
On the other hand, playing the movie on VLC on a desktop computer over Samba works perfectly fine. Playing in the browser on the same computer works as well.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to jellyfin, but I think it must be a firestick problem. The codec is probably one that is supposed to play natively on the firestick, so regardless of what program I use on the firestick, the server just feeds me the raw file and the video processing is done on the firestick where it fails to work properly. So I was wondering: is it possible to force the jellyfin server to always transcode or set it up so the firestick always requests transcoded video to prevent the bad transcoding on the firestick?
Only other thing I can think of is manually converting each file via handbrake to something that is more compatible and friendly, but I'd rather avoid that if possible.