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Bad 4K Performance on Jellyfin (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, looking for some help with the Jellyfin Media Player.

For background, I've used Plex for years, and I've had it working well. I'm trying out Jellyfin because of all of the reasons you're already thinking of.

One issue I'm having - I like uncompressed 4K HDR. I'm trying to play a large movie, one Plex direct plays perfectly fine to my HTPC. (2.5GB networking through and through, direct access, all the basics have checked). However Jellyfin Media Player seems to stutter and drop frames.

Not like "It stops and buffers", but more like playing a video game and it drops down to 15fps. Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing to enable GPU support or something? I toggled OpenGL on and off and it didn't seem to have an effect.

Video says it's direct play, no transcode. Not sure what else it could be beyond hardware acceleration?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Try jellyfin-mpv-shim. It directly uses mpv (either a built in version or even your system mpv) and if it doesn't play well there, it's likely not going to play well anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So far this is working pretty well! Shame it's such a pain doing the extra step

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You can also use jellyfin media player that uses mpv too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What OS are you watching on? There are some third-party clients that might work better. For example, Delfin on Linux and Findroid on Android.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Windows for no, but going to switch it hopefully to chimera