• whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When you say “hardware encoding”, are you talking about using your GPU for stuff like transcoding when streaming to devices?

    I ask because I actively disable all transcoding because I run jellyfin off my laptop and don’t wanna overwork it so to speak. I just assumed it was using the GPU.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, I use my server from outside my home quite often and don’t always have wifi fast enough for 4k movies, so I have plex break it down to my bandwidth. Works like a charm. Jellyfin just refuses to work.

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          9 months ago

          Oh come on, it’s better to be helpful if you can rather than just saying “for you” and adding nothing else to the conversation.

          Seriously I’m sure they’d love to try it again if the issue is resolved. I know I wouldn’t pick Plex over Jellyfin unless I had no choice.

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        9 months ago

        Ah, my use case right now is almost exclusively streaming stuff from my laptop to a phone with HEVC support over a local network so I can just turn transcoding off and be okay.

        I did however have issues with my lack of transcoding (I turned it off myself, not Jellyfin’s fault. Pitchforks down, people) on a tablet without hardware HEVC support though so I may have to experiment with it soon.

        FWIW I had to go in and turn the feature off but there’s also a good chance it was using CPU instead of GPU