Force hardware transcoding for test purposes

[banchev]

Is there a way to force playback hardware transcoding just to make sure it if is working properly? In my Proxmox LXC looks like it works just fine after the last tweaks but for some reason now my TV does not hardware transcode (like it used to do). Now I am looking for a way to force transcoding just to check if my intel GPU is doing it's job.

Thanks!

[34626]

As i understand, you want to test the Jellyfin TV client?
A thing, is to have a movie in unsupported codecs, like H265, AV1 and sudio in an unsupported format too.. You should look up, what codecs your TV supports

I know tho, that in the Jellyfin client for computers, you can force it to transcode.. But i am pretty sure i also edited in a configutation file for Jellyfin client

[TheDreadPirate]

If you have any HEVC content, just play it in the Firefox or Chrome (they don't support HEVC) and that should trigger a transcode. If all your content is H264 you can lower the quality in the quality selector on most clients until it is below the bit rate of the video. That will also trigger a transcode. If you use Jellyfin Media Player, in the client settings I believe there is an option to always transcode to a limited selection of codecs.

[banchev]

If you have any HEVC content, just play it in the Firefox or Chrome (they don't support HEVC) and that should trigger a transcode.  If all your content is H264 you can lower the quality in the quality selector on most clients until it is below the bit rate of the video.  That will also trigger a transcode.  If you use Jellyfin Media Player, in the client settings I believe there is an option to always transcode to a limited selection of codecs.

As always, to the point answer. Thanks so much. I did lower the video quality and that's how I triggered the transcoding - https://prnt.sc/U6ycjN9NtkZW