Playback Issue

[Fisher Dodson]

I have hardware acceleration enabled, but even without my system is good enough to transcode quickly using only my CPU. I can confirm it works, as all my anime titles I have require transcoding and this has never been an issue historically. My issue now is that despite transcoding seemingly completed (the red bar within dashboard fully loads within 5-10 seconds), the title itself will play for about 3 seconds on my TV and then pause for around 10-15 seconds in turn. Like I said, I have at least 8 other anime downloaded and all have played perfectly with no lag in the past. I am also doubtful about network issues, as many of my live action titles also play perfectly and I think on average they require more transfer speed? Unsure about that claim. I am at my wits end, nothing I do seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your jellyfin and ffmpeg logs associated with this problem file? Does it consistently happen with only a particular file? Or a particular series?

[Fisher Dodson]

Could you inform me of what files in particular you are interested in? I have logs from multiple days where I have been testing with the file and also numerous transcode logs for it... Should I just share the most recent of the batch (for example, the most recent ffmpeg.transcode and the logs for just today or yesterday?)
The only time I have ever experienced this issue is with this particular show, not just one specific episode but the whole thing. I have tried downloading the show from multiple sources but they all do the same thing... But from at least 5 other shows that I have tested alongside this one none of the others replicate the same issue.

[TheDreadPirate]

Replicate the problem and then share today's main jellyfin log, log_20250402.log, and the most recent ffmpeg log.

[Fisher Dodson]

I am not entirely sure where the "main jellyfin log" is stored, but I have provided the log file and the most recent ffmpeg log... they are both on this one file separated.

https://privatebin.net/?ee36e4d0fa3cfaa3...wnQLgMqj3h

[TheDreadPirate]

"Main jellyfin log" is log_20250402.log. The top portion of the link you shared.

AFAICT from you did share, transcoding performance is not the issue. But this log line is concerning.

Code:

[2025-04-02 10:16:25.785 -07:00] [WRN] [127] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: "10.0.0.54": Only loopback "127.0.0.1" returned, using that as bind address.

Do you have a VPN running or something?

[Fisher Dodson]

I have one installed, but not running as far as I know. Shut off from app UI information and app not running in task manager...

[TheDreadPirate]

Are you using a reverse proxy? Caddy? Could you share your entirety of log_20250402.log? I want to see the startup logs since that includes a lot of information for how Jellyfin is configured.

[Fisher Dodson]

Neither of the two you mentioned as far as i know. I don't know anything about either lol... what I provided was the entirety of my log file, but I can restart the server real quickly and share that log...
https://privatebin.net/?024f0533b0ebe965...gpwjzZHW9Y

[TheDreadPirate]

Code:

[2025-04-02 16:08:42.241 -07:00] [INF] [3] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Filtered interface addresses: []

It couldn't find any useable interfaces. Can you check whether your VPN is running as a service? Depending on how it runs, it may not have a process called <vpn name>.exe in task manager.

Some other things to check.

1) Verify that the NIC is set to private
2) Ensure the NIC isn't named "veth" as those are filtered by default (this would only happen if this is a VM)
3) Try running Jellyfin as admin. Based on the app directory, it is probably already running as admin.