SOLVED: Video Encoding

[Toby]

Recently been having issues with a particular media, works fine in vlc but becomes pixelated in jellyfin media player - no i cannot use another player, all other media work fine

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your jellyfin log via pastebin?

Is the file transcoding? It shouldn't in JMP, by default. But there are settings in JMP to force transcoding.

[Toby]

https://pastebin.com/dNYXTh1f
and are u talking client side force transcoding
?

[TheDreadPirate]

Yeah, the force transcode settings. It isn't clear why it is being transcoded. The video is HEVC 10-bit SDR being converted to 8-bit SDR at the same bit rate. Unless you have a really really old PC, or you are forcing transcoding in JMP, the video shouldn't be transcoding. Going from 10 to 8 bits alone could partially explain the video quality issues. You're losing a lot of gradient.

[Toby]

Having the same issue still

[Toby]

I tried running a mock server with my main pc (4080 Super) and it seemed to not be as bad still subtly there
My Server runs a 1650 all other videos play fine tho

[TheDreadPirate]

Hardware decoding should be set to "enabled". Is your main PC, the one with the 4080, the PC running jellyfin media player?

[Toby]

yes the 4080 is the pc running the media player
the 1650 is server side

I enabled hardware decoding and it has slightly improved the quality but not by much

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I dont know is this helps

[TheDreadPirate]

It appears you have a really low streaming bit rate limit on the server, spotty network connection, or you've configured a client side bit rate limit.

"The video's bitrate exceeds the limit."

[Toby]

i have seem to isolate the issue, Ive have a vpn setup for my network and ive read that having a vpn makes jellyfin automatically transcode to a device outsite the internal network. i fixed this issue by added 192.168.0.0/24,***.***.***.***/** (Vpn ip range/subnet) to the lan networks fucntion in the networking. Ive also removed bandwidth limiters in the server. I have 40mb upspeed and 600down on my home internet, althought this issue is fixed on JMP for my 4080 PC i still have the same issues as before when using my chromecast.