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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting Live TV Transcoding, Error Starting Direct Play

     
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    Live TV Transcoding, Error Starting Direct Play

    JdeFalconr
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    2025-06-09, 05:20 AM
    Thanks in advance for your help!

    Not quite sure how to troubleshoot this so sorry if I'm not providing sufficient information. I've noticed that live TV (device is HDHomerun) sometimes shows visual artifacts and, occasionally, some rather severe framerate drops. I don't have any issues when using the standard HDHomerun TV app. On the Jellyfin server during TV playback CPU utilization hovers around 20% on all cores so I don't think it's a resource issue. I noticed that FFMpeg is running, which I know means the stream is being transcoded. I noticed in Dashboard the Reason for Transcoding is "There was an error starting direct playback." 

    I'm running Jellyfin Media Player on Win11. Dashboard shows:

    Quote:The media is being converted into a format that is compatible with the device that is playing the media.
    Framerate: 60fps
    5.3 Mbps TS H264 AC3

    Here are my logfiles, which I've seen others provide on these forums for similar issues; hopefully these are the ones you need.
    Jellyfin.log
    ffmpeg.transcode
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