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How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This is something that has been increasingly prevalent with my server, for the longest time I could torrent, have two people watching and everything's fine, but lately, especially with specific shows, it will take upwards of a minute for a show to start.

I've looked into it and the culprit is ffmpeg most of the time, I assume this has something to do with the specific files not having transcoding "baked in" but I don't know enough to know if that's the case. Can anyone help me optimize my pipeline at all?

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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

not knowledgeable about them things but normal movies and shows with multiple audio streams and subtitles play just fine with directplay, selecting them from the client works fine, etc.

the only reasons I know of for transcoding would be if you have ancient clients that can't play e.g HEVC or something, or if you're on shitty broadband and it ain't feasible to stream 4K to a phone.