From 985cd62ddb54d063c1828f70a7e2dce00fa5683c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DoTheEvo Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:33:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] update --- jellyfin/readme.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/jellyfin/readme.md b/jellyfin/readme.md index f54ed16..004caac 100644 --- a/jellyfin/readme.md +++ b/jellyfin/readme.md @@ -29,12 +29,13 @@ various languages and frameworks. ![encoding-pic](https://i.imgur.com/s2vQxG1.png) * a **video file** is a bunch of pictures - **frames**, - packed in to one file. + packed in to a one file. * To save disk space and bandwidth its **compressed** using a video standard/codec. - * **H.262** - also called MPEG-2 - stuff of the past - * **H.264** - the most common now, also called **AVC** or MPEG-4 + * **H.262** - also called MPEG-2 - stuff of the past. + * **H.264** - the most common now, also called **AVC** or MPEG-4. * **H.265** - also called **HEVC**, fast spreading, 50% improved over H.264,
- but fees for it got more expensive with convoluted patent pools + but it also greatly increased fees for developers and manufacturers and and came + with a convoluted patent pools. * **AV1** - the future, no royalty fees, more improvements. The successor to VP9, which was developed by google. * Ways to transcode @@ -84,16 +85,16 @@ can do dozens of **concurent streams** in direct play. But there are cases **when a client does not support codec** of the video file.
Example is Firefox playing a movie encoded in HEVC(x265).
Jellyfin knows which codecs client supports and if needed -it **transcodes video on the fly**, as it's being streamed. - -Another reason can be if you set hard limit on upstream bandwith use.
+it **transcodes video on the fly**, as it's being streamed.
+Another reason to transcode can be if you set a hard limit on bandwidth +use per stream.
In `Dashboard` > `Playback` > `Streaming` setting lets say [2Mbps.](https://i.imgur.com/7hSf4e1.png) -Out of the box, jellyfin is set to **use cpu for software-cpu transcoding**. +Out of the box, jellyfin is set to **use cpu for software transcoding**. It will work fine for one or two simple 1080p concurent streams, -unless the cpu is really underpowered/old. -In any case it can put [a heavy load](https://i.imgur.com/rjNFN1J.png) +unless the cpu is really underpowered/old, +but it will put [a heavy load](https://i.imgur.com/rjNFN1J.png) on the CPU. ### Hardware acceleration @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ transcoding, using iGPU which greatly improves performance and power consumption * **Intel** - QSV - intel quicksync. Go-To recommendation and ideal for most users, high quality, fast, reliable drivers, cheap and low power consumption as an igpu. - Most used so huge userbase. + Huge userbase. * **AMD** - VAAPI when in docker - kinda shunned as historicly it had the worst encode quality. [AMD improved some](https://youtu.be/H0pCpNT4b-Q), but so did the competition so it's still not as good. But in real use @@ -184,21 +185,20 @@ Software used for monitoring the cpu and gpu usage # Clients -Jellyfin's open source nature allows developers to create unofficial client apps -for various platforms. +Jellyfin's open source nature allows developers to create unofficial client apps. * [Awesome Jellyfin Clients List](https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin/blob/main/CLIENTS.md) -The ones I tried and find good to know about. +The ones I tried and find interesting. ### [Findroid](https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid) Feels bit better in user interface and control.
-Does not jump subtitles like the official client, also seems its always directplay -even 4k+HDR, have to investigate how the fuck does it do. -Uses mpv, but does it mean theres some big load on a phone when compared -to the official app?
-It ignores max streaming bandwith limit when server streams over the internet. +Does not jump subtitles like the official client, +also seems it's always directplay even 4k+HDR, have to investigate +how the fuck does it do. Uses mpv, but does it mean theres some big load +on a phone when compared to the official app?
+It ignores max streaming bandwidth limit when server streams over the internet. ### [Finamp](https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp) @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ to automount on boot - `sudo systemctl enable mnt-bigdisk.automount` * docker host - go to `jellyfin/jellyfin_config/log/` * the last file in the folder is the last playback attempt -* paste that output in to chatgpt +* paste that in to chatgpt #### Autodiscovery not working