Jellyfin's an awesome open source home media server. I'll show you how I use it to organize my movies and TV shows.Part 1 (how I rip media to my computer) he...
There are tons of reasons why Jellyfin may decide to transcode. In my experience browsers and players usually have the right video decoder support, but high efficiency audio codecs seem to trigger transcoding. It’s also possibly the specific video profile (colour depth, HDR, whatever) isn’t supported by the client even if the more common profiles are.
In some circumstances, enabling embedded subtitles can force a transcode. Using Bazarr to download separate subtitles helps prevent weird transcodes for some of the videos I’ve gathered on my server.
There are tons of reasons why Jellyfin may decide to transcode. In my experience browsers and players usually have the right video decoder support, but high efficiency audio codecs seem to trigger transcoding. It’s also possibly the specific video profile (colour depth, HDR, whatever) isn’t supported by the client even if the more common profiles are.
In some circumstances, enabling embedded subtitles can force a transcode. Using Bazarr to download separate subtitles helps prevent weird transcodes for some of the videos I’ve gathered on my server.