Better performance streaming away from home?

[conrat4567]

Hi, 

I am new to hosting media so this is all exploratory for me. 

I set up Jellyfin as a docker container that sits on a NUC that doubles as my NAS. The libraries are on a dedicated disk hosted by my NAS and jellyfin reads them over the network. I did this so I could easily dump new files in there from my main PC.

At home, the performance I get is fine, it will happily stream 1080p without a drop but will struggle to scrub sometimes. Today, I was at a friends house and I connected to my VPN tunnel on thier wifi. I was getting 200mbps but I was waiting a minute for a video to load.

What was the bottleneck in this situation? 

I think the NUC is not powerful enough on its own and I am toying with the idea of building a dedicated server for jellyfin on an ubuntu distro but I am not sure. 

I want to understand Jellyfin and media hosting as a whole so any advice would be appreciated.

[TheDreadPirate]

What model NUC. And can you share your jellyfin logs via pastebin?

[conrat4567]

What model NUC.  And can you share your jellyfin logs via pastebin?

The NUC is a nuc 6i3syh. It doubles as my NAS as well. Docker sits on openmediavault. Its a 6th gen NUC from 2015 - 16

Here is the paste bin of one of the movies I tested with: https://pastebin.com/rqvj41v6

[TheDreadPirate]

You haven't enabled hardware acceleration. You're using the CPU for transcoding and that old, lower power, CPU isn't up to the task.

In Dashboard > Playback, select VAAPI from the drop down. Quick Sync appears to have been deprecated for 6000 series CPUs in Intel's drivers.

Use this table to select the correct codecs (Sky Lake column). Leave unchecked all the tone mapping settings and leave unchecked low power encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding

[34626]

What client do you use at home and what did you use at your friends home?

[conrat4567]

You haven't enabled hardware acceleration.  You're using the CPU for transcoding and that old, lower power, CPU isn't up to the task.

In Dashboard > Playback, select VAAPI from the drop down.  Quick Sync appears to have been deprecated for 6000 series CPUs in Intel's drivers.

Use this table to select the correct codecs (Sky Lake column).  Leave unchecked all the tone mapping settings and leave unchecked low power encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding

Thank you, just tried that and unchecked all the settings but my phone stopped playing back and the desktop client is just as slow still. I think I need to bite the bullet and build a dedicated unit for it. 

Do you have a recommendation for what to look in to? Intel, AMD, that sort of thing?

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What client do you use at home and what did you use at your friends home?

I used the android app for both but I use the desktop and Fire stick app sometimes

[conrat4567]

Just swapped to the native android player in the client for android and it is much better. I didn't even know that was an option. My fault. Hardware acceleration is also now working. I will keep and eye on it. Thank you

[34626]

What happens if you use Intel Quick Sync for hardware acceleration? Please share a log with the transcode..