Feature Requests vlc external

[HERIGROSIR]

Of course I know how Jellyfin works to play movie files with Transcoding

Complete transcoding, this will burden server performance
if your client is watching more than 100 people or more than that

I suggest to developers, to be given a choice

You can play it by transcoding
or you can play with external vlc


either admin or client can choose that


The developer only needs to add an option here to select external VLC software





by playing the movie via VLC directly
it will not burden server performance
movie files on the .mkv server, easily played by vlc
no need for transcoding


That's my input to the developer, so that it can be used as evaluation material
to make this Jellyfin software even better
Thank You

[Efficient_Good_5784]

This feature request already is possible.

Platforms that can install VLC should be able to install Jellyfin Media Player (JMP) or MPV Shim. Both JMP and MPV Shim use MPV as the player which works on par with VLC (or if not, possibly better).
MPV can direct play MKV files and ASS subs too.

Here are their respective github pages:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim