I loaded my entire Plex movie library in to Jellyfin and at first everything was going great. Realized pretty quickly some files won’t play on my Apple TV. I tried multiple Jellyfin apps for ATV but I imagine the issue is the transcoding on the backend.

I understand mixing open source software like Jellyfin with closed source Apple products is a weird combo. But I’m not willing to ditch my Apple TV right now.

I confirmed the video files that weren’t playing via Jellyfin played no problem via Plex. Plex continues to make decisions that make me want to switch to Jellyfin, but it also seems Plex’s transcoding is better. Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Edit: Looks like Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't pay nice with Jellyfin when it comes to hardware acceleration :(
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#raspberry-pi-hardware-acceleration-support-deprecation

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does your transcoding configuration look like?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As in hardware or settings? It’s running on the same Rasburry pi 5 with 16gb ram as my plex server. Obviously this is on the lower end of compute, but I would expect it to have similar performance to Plex.

For software config, I’ve changed no Jellyfin settings from the defaults. I kinda was hoping it’s set and forget like Plex.

Edit: both Jellyfin and Plex are running in docker (via CasaOS)

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This video has the setup you need to do to enable hardware transcoding

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Started the video but didn't see the hardware acceleration option. Then I found this. Not looking good for the pi :(
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#raspberry-pi-hardware-acceleration-support-deprecation