How to disable transcoding

[GalayZloy]

I have home server with Jellyfin and local media storage (samba sharing), and I have modern powerful TV box which is able to decode any video I want. I need all the functions of the media library from Jelly, but so that the video is not transcoded in any way, and the files open like regular files over the network.
Is there a way to disable transcoding completely? Or does it require a separate fork?

[gaming09]

Dashboard > Playback > Transcoding

[skribe]

I have home server with Jellyfin and local media storage (samba sharing), and I have modern powerful TV box which is able to decode any video I want. I need all the functions of the media library from Jelly, but so that the video is not transcoded in any way, and the files open like regular files over the network.
Is there a way to disable transcoding completely? Or does it require a separate fork?

You can disable transcoding for individual users under the user settings. There is no way to simply toggle transcoding for the entire server.

This being said, your use case doesn't really strike me as anything particularly demanding of some custom solution here. If, as you say, the client device supports basically any format, like an Nvidia Shield, then jellyfin will avoid transcoding where it can. There's no need to really make any adjustments. As long as your network is fast enough, and your client supports the encoded formats, jellyfin will avoid transcoding the file by default. If jellyfin is transcoding, it's because the client does not, in fact, support the encoding for one reason or another.

[TheDreadPirate]

I have home server with Jellyfin and local media storage (samba sharing), and I have modern powerful TV box which is able to decode any video I want. I need all the functions of the media library from Jelly, but so that the video is not transcoded in any way, and the files open like regular files over the network.
Is there a way to disable transcoding completely? Or does it require a separate fork?

You can disable transcoding for individual users under the user settings. There is no way to simply toggle transcoding for the entire server.

This being said, your use case doesn't really strike me as anything particularly demanding of some custom solution here. If, as you say, the client device supports basically any format, like an Nvidia Shield, then jellyfin will avoid transcoding where it can. There's no need to really make any adjustments. As long as your network is fast enough, and your client supports the encoded formats, jellyfin will avoid transcoding the file by default. If jellyfin is transcoding, it's because the client does not, in fact, support the encoding for one reason or another.

Echoing skribe. If it transcodes, there is a good reason for it. Be it compatibility or network performance. To add to this, subtitle format has been a "transcode reason" for one of my devices (Chromecast with Google TV).

[GalayZloy]

Dashboard > Playback > Transcoding

there is not option to disable it

[GalayZloy]

You can disable transcoding for individual users under the user settings. There is no way to simply toggle transcoding for the entire server.

how can I do that? which options?

This being said, your use case doesn't really strike me as anything particularly demanding of some custom solution here. If, as you say, the client device supports basically any format, like an Nvidia Shield, then jellyfin will avoid transcoding where it can. There's no need to really make any adjustments. As long as your network is fast enough, and your client supports the encoded formats, jellyfin will avoid transcoding the file by default. If jellyfin is transcoding, it's because the client does not, in fact, support the encoding for one reason or another.

a specific case - I do not have a powerful server and one day when I was watching a movie, the video suddenly stopped and it turned out that the server ran out of space on the ssd where the transcoding folder is located.
another time I was watching a movie and the video was freezing.
not to explain for a long time, I want to completely disable the transcoding function and use Jelly just as a library.

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Echoing skribe.  If it transcodes, there is a good reason for it.  Be it compatibility or network performance.  To add to this, subtitle format has been a "transcode reason" for one of my devices (Chromecast with Google TV).

All I want is just to disable this feature. I understand that the authors took care of the users and that's great, but I just want to turn it off.

[zackoid]

In the admin dashboard where you can control user permissions.  Needs to be done for each user.

   

[GalayZloy]

Thank you! It seems to be what I need.

[SkyFyx]

Guys when i'm uncheck the transcoding function for a user,
i can't play the media on google chrome and with the Mibox ( xiaomi ),
with plex it's work but plex is so ugly.

Anyone have an idea ? pls

[TheDreadPirate]

If your device can't play the media, its because it doesn't support some aspect of the media. Codec, profile, level, container, etc.

Can you upload to pastebin your jellyfin log and link it here?