Theres like 3 levels of indirection going on here which is confusing but gives you a lot of control:
Media has a "Quality Profile".
Profiles are a set of ranked Qualities.
Qualities define a Format and Size limits
You should create or edit a profile with only qualities of formats that jellyfin supports. Then set your media to only use that profile. I dont know for sure which qualities jellyfin supports but I only use Bluray, HDTV and WEB. For sure uncheck Remux.
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on anymore there. I forced it not to transcode things in user settings, and nothing would play. Then I turned that off, and the 1080p stuff with reasonable file size seems fine. IDK if it's transcoding or not, Jellyfin is kind of a weird black box.
I think the important thing is to ban those +50GB movie formats what will take forever to transcode.
I wonder how Plex handles this problem. Because jellyfin requires everything to be in a limited set of formats so the streaming works well. Does Plex not do that too?
Thanks. It's not finding anything with that setting, so I'm not sure if it does the trick. But I'll give it some time.
Its under Settings>Profile.
Theres like 3 levels of indirection going on here which is confusing but gives you a lot of control:
You should create or edit a profile with only qualities of formats that jellyfin supports. Then set your media to only use that profile. I dont know for sure which qualities jellyfin supports but I only use Bluray, HDTV and WEB. For sure uncheck Remux.
Yeah, I know where the setting is. I was saying it can't find anything using just webdl 720/1080.
I'll see if hdtv and blueray go through without transcoding, though.
edit: nope hdtv needs it
Strange. I dont need any transcoding with those formats and I'm using jellyfin too. Maybe my jellyfin instance is able to support more codecs somehow?
Edit: maybe its transcoding and I'm just not noticing it.
Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on anymore there. I forced it not to transcode things in user settings, and nothing would play. Then I turned that off, and the 1080p stuff with reasonable file size seems fine. IDK if it's transcoding or not, Jellyfin is kind of a weird black box.
I think the important thing is to ban those +50GB movie formats what will take forever to transcode.
I wonder how Plex handles this problem. Because jellyfin requires everything to be in a limited set of formats so the streaming works well. Does Plex not do that too?