ULTIMATE Jellyfin Guide - Hardware Acceleration, Codecs (PART 2)

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Jellyfin is a free and open source alternative to PLEX and Emby. In part 2 of these videos will will be discussing hrdware acceleration, how to enable it, and why your main focus should be on the media codecs on your server.

00:00 - Introductions
01:12 - Hardware Acceleration
02:51 - Raspberry Pi (example)
03:47 - NVIDIA, AMD, etc.
04:22 - Media Codec Support
06:00 - Converting Codecs

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[NyneIX]

Dude, I'm so happy you're doing this series. I've already been able to improve my Jellyfin despite using it for the past year.

[isaaccraiggumbrell]

This is such a good tutorial. Just what I needed.

[jaimerios]

Dang good vid. Thanks for putting this together 😁

[nicolaslavinicki]

Awesome content, bro! Can't wait for part 3! What is going to be? Can you coverage external access?

[leventevarga]

Bunch amount of option missing, from Jellyfin. I know what should use for transcoding, but that's missing from the Web GUI. Have to type in manually

[phanikumarjasti]

@techHut I am having Issues with Jellyfin using more memory like 3Gig which is unusual, any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

[reljoy]

I have an Orange Pi 5+ and have set up Casaos and Jellyfin media server. My personal videos rendered by Kdenlive on my Linux Mint 20.3 computer do NOT work on my TCL smart TV even though I rendered using Generic MP4 - the dominant format (H264/AAC). Are you able to advise me?

[Suzuki_Hiakura]

So I have just found this and was wondering if I can't just playback my H.265 media directly, or decode it. I don't see why it has issues as I used Plex before and it never had issues, I assume because decoding was handled by the server. Is there a way I can fix it to not convert to H.264? The quality tanks drastically as I need to lower the quality down to 320p... only then does it stop stuttering due to the annoying internet speed I have at home; it is the reason I spent so much time converting my media to h.265 so I can save space on the drives while also saving bandwidth by several mb...

[Widur]

How do you transcode MPEG4. It does not seem to work for me at all, neither with ffmpeg nor with quick sync. Would love to know how you set up your jellyfin to do that.

[elechtma]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have Jellyfin installed using portainer in open media vault on my pi 4. Any advice to get hardware acceleration set up?

[IcoKirov]

i'm confused. was hardware acceleration disabled when we played the first frozen.avi?

[barbarella]

have a drink each time he says "go ahead and..."

[doctorsaysitall]

hi i am having a problem on this" This client isn't compatible with the media and the server isn't sending a compatible media format."

[ThylineTheGay]

Is there a way to do it with amd gpu without the pro drivers?

[AllGO]

Hello, is it necessary to have a graphics card installed to have more video codecs?

[raydsa]

hey Tech how do you back up your jellyfin database link the user names and harddriver config?

[priit]

Getting the hardware acceleration to work on linux actually is wayyyy more complicated, sadly. (especially when you be using one of the misguided distros, dropping HW de- and encoding in mesa drivers). Even when following the jellifin own documentation for enabling it. It's very hit and miss with older GPU's and their supported formats. Real benefit would be ofc to have some newest generation GPU with all the possible hw encoders and decoders presents, but most of us aren't that lucky.

[rcmanaure]

Yes, you can easily automate using a Python script and cronjobs. I made one myself, check all the MKV files in the folder and start the transcoding to MP4, and if everything is fine, delete the MKV file and move on to the next one. The task scheduled with crontab, I configured it to run the script every day at midnight and if there is no MKV file to process it does nothing and waits until the next call at midnight.

[RINEGANALQUIMISTA]

You should have a videos of how to configure the URL and the EMCRIPTACION

[rickeyhaughton]

Good morning how to get it to work on the go or my phone or tab?