2023-11-04, 02:44 AM
When I've been watching 4K movies on my server, I noticed in my dashboard that if the video needs to transcode it always specifies that it’s transcoding at 11 or 14 Mbps.
Some of my movies are encoded in AV1, others in HEVC. If the video transcodes, it transcodes to AV1, but I noticed that the average bitrate in VLC for my HEVC encoded movies is around 20Mbps, so that’s higher than what is playing on my TV.
Does Jellyfin always compress movies when transcoding? I mean, more than specified. I don’t have a bitrate limit set on my server, or TV. I use NVENC hardware acceleration, but I’ve tried multiple CRF values between 20 and 15, and it always plays at the same bitrate across the same movies.
I guess this isn’t a huge deal, but I want to be able to get the highest quality as I can.
Some of my movies are encoded in AV1, others in HEVC. If the video transcodes, it transcodes to AV1, but I noticed that the average bitrate in VLC for my HEVC encoded movies is around 20Mbps, so that’s higher than what is playing on my TV.
Does Jellyfin always compress movies when transcoding? I mean, more than specified. I don’t have a bitrate limit set on my server, or TV. I use NVENC hardware acceleration, but I’ve tried multiple CRF values between 20 and 15, and it always plays at the same bitrate across the same movies.
I guess this isn’t a huge deal, but I want to be able to get the highest quality as I can.