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    Jellyfin Forum Support General Questions Automatic quality switching/transcoding if connection too slow?

     
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    Automatic quality switching/transcoding if connection too slow?

    New to Jellyfin, curious if automatic quality switching is a feature
    mikeebee
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    54 minutes ago
    Hi all!

    First time to Jellyfin, I'm on a fresh install 10.11.2. Hardware transcoding is set up and functioning as expected if you manually change the bitrate during playback.

    I had assumed that Jellyfin would change bitrate and transcode on the fly, like any other streaming service, but no matter what I do, how slow the connection is, the play method is Direct playing. Frames get constantly dropped, and buffering occurs.

    I see that Jellyfin does a bitrate test when you first load but that doesn't seem to affect anything. The playback quality never changes.

    I'm hoping I'm just missing a tweak somewhere as this is the missing piece of a great setup so far!

    Please let me know if I can provide any more information, logs etc.

    Many thanks,
    Mike
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