Super high CPU

[Gorf]

I'm really losing my mind trying to figure out why my Jellyfin instance runs so frickin hot. I have 16 Xeon 5-2680 @ 2.50GHz procs assigned to it with 128G of memory. When watching an H264 encoded movie, this thing runs at 95% CPU and never comes below about 85% memory usage. Its a VM and the Jellyfin instance is running in the official container that is up to date. Something has to be wrong here because the exact same media file played on Plex from the exact same VM doesn't even break a couple of percent of CPU. I play everything without transcoding. And the behaviour is the same via Roku client or Webclient. All of this power and I can only just play 1 stream at a time. And the behaviour is the same even if I am playing the file right off the local filesystem.

This is the docker compose:

Code:

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    user: 1000:1000
    group_add:
      - '105' #render group ID
    networks:
      - plexnet
    ports:
      - 8096:8096/tcp
    volumes:
      - ./jellyfin_config:/config
      - ./jellyfin_cache:/cache
      - multimedia:/media:ro
    restart: 'always'
    # Optional - alternative address used for autodiscovery
    environment:
      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=http://jellyfin

if anyone could offer any advice, I'd really appreciate it.

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share your jellyfin log? I suspect it is transcoding for some reason. If there are ffmpeg logs, share one of those.

The log file(s) would be located in wherever jellyfin_config is located.

Code:

./jellyfin_config/config/log/log_20260711.log
./jellyfin_config/config/log/FFMPEG_<date and random string>.log

Share them via pastebin.