Yeah, I’ve started looking into ARC as that looks like what Jellyfin supports the best. Would you mind telling me what ARC you are using and how many simultaneous transcodes you’ve been able to handle? It looks like the Pro A-Series is the best.

You may be right going off this.

Also this is hilarious:

Looks like I’ll be looking into a dedicated gpu, and AMD isn’t recommended, so it’ll be Nvidia.

Unfortunately, Video Core Next isn’t listed in Jellyfin’s hardware acceleration list. I tried AMD iGPU passthrough with VA-API, but ran into issues. It seems I need to figure out:

1. How are people on Firefox not having to transcode? Do they just not use mkv’s or h265? Looking at the documentation, Firefox will need to do transcode, which lines up with what I’m seeing on my end.
2. I need to figure out how to get iGPU to work so transcoding doesn’t hurt the server so much.

Big Buck Bunny direct plays. It’s a .mp4 container and h264, so that likely has to do with it. My understanding was most people would be using h265 mkv files for content that’s 1080p or higher. It plays fine on Google Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox, so I’m a bit confused how people can be using Firefox and not have transcoding, unless they avoid h265 and mkv.

Everything I play has “The container is not supported”. I use mkv’s mostly. In this example, the audio codec is not supported as well.

Intel processor N100? Isn’t hardware acceleration for GPUs? Or am I misunderstanding.

Does it support playing mkv’s? I see container not supported and it transcodes.

What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding? Have you changed anything?

My server has a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and a single transcode about maxes it out on CPU usage. Even when playing a 1080p file. This can’t be normal if others are just “dealing” with transcodes, unless everyone is using hardware acceleration. I’m using Firefox as the client.

Edit: I did turn off Allow encoding in HEVC format and Allow encoding in AV1 format and things are a bit better. Still not sure how people avoid transcoding on Firefox though.

Do you use mpv shim? How do you avoid transcoding? In my opinion, that is why we can’t rely on the browser client and require a dedicated application.

I keep hearing about ZeroK and Beyond All-Reason. What are the major differences between the two and how do these compare with Sup Com FAF, TA and such?

What about The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker?

I’ve never played it, but perhaps Mask of the Rose?

1. LUFS is disabled
2. ID3 tags should be fine. This issue was present before I started manually tagging with MP3tag.
3. I might be wrong on the playback reporting not working, as I needed to wait for the entire track to finish for it to show in the plugin page. Testing with the official Jellyfin Desktop Client (Windows).

I went back and did some additional testing. I am unable to reproduce the issue on a completely fresh Windows Jellyfin install (10.3). I wiped all the directories before installing.

Though it took multiple attempts, the issue is still present on my main server (Linux Debian service) after adding the playback reporting plugin. I briefly added all the plugins and matched the settings and I can’t get the clean Windows server to break. I’ll have to dig deeper on the main server to see what may be causing this.

For me the issue wasn’t present at the start of 10.9, but it was very annoying for someone that would add around 15 new tracks a week.

At the bottom of this forum thread I posted some screenshots. This was a while ago, before I started dissecting my setup. Essentially, after adding a new track or album, there was about a 66% chance that it wouldn’t have the artist as you can see in the screenshots. After I started tagging my music and setting the covers to “Front cover” instead of putting them as separate jpg files, it wouldn’t pick up the cover for anything.

I spun up a fresh install of the latest version and when I removed that plugin, everything started getting the proper metadata. It was a reproducible issue.

This also happened with my home video library, where it wouldn’t get screen grabs for the thumbnails. Movies and TV series were fine though.

I’m not 100% sure on the next bit, but it also seemed like the playback reporting plugin wasn’t working at all even on the fresh server. After playing media and waiting, it would never get populated. So combine that with my previous issue, and the fact that it hasn’t had an update in a while, I thought it was just incompatible with the current version and cut my losses. I just wanted to get my server working back the way it was and it was an issue I’ve been dealing with for months, so I removed the plugin.

I haven’t done any recent testing though, and couldn’t find much discussion on if others are having this issue.

Of course this has nothing to do with what you’ve made. It’s not your fault the plugin isn’t working in my setup, and it isn’t the plugin’s fault Jellyfin is lacking the proper data for you to work with natively. Hopefully I can re-visit this issue and get it working in the future.

This looks cool! Unfortunately it requires the playback reporting plugin which I removed as it causes issues with later versions of Jellyfin (for me at least). Even with a clean server I found the plugin wasn’t pulling any data and made it so album art and artist information wouldn’t show up without a manual scan of each track. I was still able to find some interesting stats without the plugin though. Thanks!

It’s closed source, but Symfonium has had smart playlists for a while, if it’s a feature you’re willing to switch for. It’s great to see this feature in the Jellyfin server, and hopefully all the apps can implement it in due time.

I haven’t heard of Shoko. How is it different from metadata grabbers like AniDB and AniList? The website makes it seem like it just uses AniDB to tag your episodes and series.

For those on Jellyfin, there’s a plugin that can pull lyrics from lrclib. Not sure how it exactly compares to this, but it works for me.

Anyone else think we need a new unofficial desktop client? I don’t think the main one gets that many updates anymore. The last couple of updates were just to make it work with 10.9.x. There are 312 open issues. I wish I had the ability to help merge PR’s. Not that it’s a buggy mess, but some updates would be nice. Glad to see we get plenty of contending mobile apps though.