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* a **video file** is a bunch of pictures - **frames**,
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packed in to one file.
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packed in to a one file.
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* To save disk space and bandwidth its **compressed** using a video standard/codec.
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* **H.262** - also called MPEG-2 - stuff of the past
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* **H.264** - the most common now, also called **AVC** or MPEG-4
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* **H.262** - also called MPEG-2 - stuff of the past.
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* **H.264** - the most common now, also called **AVC** or MPEG-4.
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* **H.265** - also called **HEVC**, fast spreading, 50% improved over H.264,<br>
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but fees for it got more expensive with convoluted patent pools
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but it also greatly increased fees for developers and manufacturers and and came
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with a convoluted patent pools.
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* **AV1** - the future, no royalty fees, more improvements.
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The successor to VP9, which was developed by google.
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* Ways to transcode
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@@ -84,16 +85,16 @@ can do dozens of **concurent streams** in direct play.
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But there are cases **when a client does not support codec** of the video file.<br>
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Example is Firefox playing a movie encoded in HEVC(x265).<br>
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Jellyfin knows which codecs client supports and if needed
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it **transcodes video on the fly**, as it's being streamed.
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Another reason can be if you set hard limit on upstream bandwith use.<br>
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it **transcodes video on the fly**, as it's being streamed.<br>
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Another reason to transcode can be if you set a hard limit on bandwidth
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use per stream.<br>
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In `Dashboard` > `Playback` > `Streaming` setting lets say
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[2Mbps.](https://i.imgur.com/7hSf4e1.png)
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Out of the box, jellyfin is set to **use cpu for software-cpu transcoding**.
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Out of the box, jellyfin is set to **use cpu for software transcoding**.
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It will work fine for one or two simple 1080p concurent streams,
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unless the cpu is really underpowered/old.
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In any case it can put [a heavy load](https://i.imgur.com/rjNFN1J.png)
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unless the cpu is really underpowered/old,
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but it will put [a heavy load](https://i.imgur.com/rjNFN1J.png)
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on the CPU.
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### Hardware acceleration
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@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ transcoding, using iGPU which greatly improves performance and power consumption
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* **Intel** - QSV - intel quicksync. Go-To recommendation and ideal for most users,
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high quality, fast, reliable drivers, cheap and low power consumption as an igpu.
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Most used so huge userbase.
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Huge userbase.
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* **AMD** - VAAPI when in docker - kinda shunned as historicly it had the worst
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encode quality. [AMD improved some](https://youtu.be/H0pCpNT4b-Q),
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but so did the competition so it's still not as good. But in real use
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@@ -184,21 +185,20 @@ Software used for monitoring the cpu and gpu usage
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# Clients
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Jellyfin's open source nature allows developers to create unofficial client apps
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for various platforms.
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Jellyfin's open source nature allows developers to create unofficial client apps.
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* [Awesome Jellyfin Clients List](https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin/blob/main/CLIENTS.md)
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The ones I tried and find good to know about.
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The ones I tried and find interesting.
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### [Findroid](https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid)
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Feels bit better in user interface and control.<br>
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Does not jump subtitles like the official client, also seems its always directplay
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even 4k+HDR, have to investigate how the fuck does it do.
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Uses mpv, but does it mean theres some big load on a phone when compared
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to the official app?<br>
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It ignores max streaming bandwith limit when server streams over the internet.
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Does not jump subtitles like the official client,
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also seems it's always directplay even 4k+HDR, have to investigate
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how the fuck does it do. Uses mpv, but does it mean theres some big load
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on a phone when compared to the official app?<br>
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It ignores max streaming bandwidth limit when server streams over the internet.
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### [Finamp](https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp)
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@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ to automount on boot - `sudo systemctl enable mnt-bigdisk.automount`
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* docker host - go to `jellyfin/jellyfin_config/log/`
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* the last file in the folder is the last playback attempt
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* paste that output in to chatgpt
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* paste that in to chatgpt
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#### Autodiscovery not working
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