Swiftfin / Infuse Not Adhering to Bandwidth Limit

[JazoBurbs]

With the holidays comes an influx in questions from my users.

I’ve noticed that both Swift & Infuse very inconsistently adhere to both user-level and global-level bandwidth limits. I get that these apps are focused on Direct Play and that they don’t have options to adjust quality. Instead of using the official JellyFin App on tvOS (or StreamyFin on iPhone), I was looking to force transcoding on specific users but this doesn’t happen most of the time.

Can someone else either validate this or provide suggestions to further test and get this to work. There really just isn’t a perfect tvOS app out there for remote users that prioritizes streaming experience over quality. Really waiting for StreamyFin tvOS or Infuse to support quality selection.

Thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

IIRC, Infuse will directly access the file with the Jellyfin download API, circumventing bit rate limits.

Swiftfin SHOULD be using the playback API and honoring any limits set. Both global and user specific. As long as the user's address is detected as "remote".

[JazoBurbs]

Thanks!
Re Infuse - Got it. I know there’s a lot of discussion around improvements there as far as user selected quality/transcoding. Respecting server settings would be a good bare minimum.

Re SwiftFin. Thanks for confirming. It seems to be inconsistent for sure.

I’m using Tailscale but have tailnet IP set as remote in the server settings so it should treat any Tailscale connection as remote.

[TheDreadPirate]

How did you set the tailscale IP as remote? Can you show me a screenshot of that setting in Dashboard > Networking?

[JazoBurbs]

Sure thing. See attached. Also “Force transcoding of remote media sources such as Live TV” is currently unchecked.

   

[TheDreadPirate]

Do you have anything in the "LAN Networks" field?

[JazoBurbs]

Yup. The typical 192.x.x.x.

[TheDreadPirate]

Reproduce the issue with Swiftfin, then share your jellyfin log via pastebin.

[JazoBurbs]

I can’t reproduce yet on the AppleTV since I need to re-log in via remote. But last week i tested both SwiftFin and infuse. Both didn’t respect the global bandwidth settings.

I just tested both apps on iOS. SwiftFin did respect the bandwidth settings but Infuse did not.

[TheDreadPirate]

Update us when you get around to testing Swiftfin on your AppleTV.

From what I know about Infuse, and the logs kind of confirm it, Infuse will not honor the bit rate limit due to how it bypasses the playback api.