Re:Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
by counttheforks on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:43PM
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How is any of that related to subtitles not working right in the web client? The media I download does not require transcoding.
Some people work around this by making sure they only store supported codecs, either by being selective with media or offline transcoding (which can be instrumented with software like https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr).
There's nothing "magic" here. Your options regardless of software are inherently:
1. Make sure to only store and stream supported media (as explained above)
2. Do the decoding and playback in a capable client (like mentioned above you can make it fairly seamlessly with the web client together with jellyfin-mpv-shim)
3. Live transcoding (may require tweaking drivers and codecs on your server; significantly increases server hardware requirements and load)
More info here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support