• 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

        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