I solved this problem by having all of my media in a supported format of all of my devices so no transcoding is needed. My Pi 4 can transcode two 480p streams simultaneously or a single 1080p stream but can’t do any more than that. However it can stream at least 4 streams simultaneously a mix of 4k, 1080p and 480p. It suits my needs unless I’m transcoding 4k due to subtitles 😵. Hopefully transcoding won’t be required for subtitles forever… right? Right?
What’s the format of the videos? I’ve tried everything I could think of to rip and transcode a 3D bluray.
No judgement here. I think it’s a worthy goal just not one I am particularly interested in at this point. Maybe if the automation was a bit easier and the mobile device management was easier I might join you.
My experience is it’s really a lot of work and with the prevalence of letsencrypt, there is not a lot of automated setups for this use case (at least that I have been able to find). It is kind of a pain in the ass to run your own CA, especially if you plan to not use wildcard and to rotate certs often. If you use tailscale, they offer https certs with a subdomain given to you:
[server-name].[tailnet-name].ts.net
That’s honestly what I’m moving towards.
Another vote for wiki.js. It has tons of authentication options and integrations. The mobile web interface is a tad clunky but usable.
Mine is only accessible from VPN so I’m not worried.
Thanks for the write up. I am currently using a Roku TV with the Jellyfin client running on it. I’ll need to look into Kodi and sounds like I might need an AVR or set top box. It would be nice if these things (TVs, soundbars) were more open. Maybe we need an open source soundbar firmware, then I could permanently disable Alexa and maybe make use of it’s networking capabilities.
That’s what I had heard as well. Maybe this is a new feature request for the project developers.
Interesting. Can you tell me more about your setup? A Jellyfin server (does it need a plugin?) then TV is running Kodi client which connects to Jellyfin and your transcoding settings are configured on the Kodi client? Is that right or am I missing something?
So back to my origin question. Jellyfin supports transcoding so can it support device specific profiles where I can force it to transcode all audio to ac3 for specific decices?
Under my TV’s audio digital output format selection it says “select pass through to hear unmodified dolby or dts audio using ARC. If dolby or dts passthrough is not possible, you’ll hear stereo.” It lets me choose custom but can’t get it to use the AAC surround unless I use optical.
My TV must be doing the conversion because optical audio is surround sound but HDMI ARC is stereo and it sounds terrible because it must be passing through only a couple channels. Maybe the spec supports it but the soundbar only supports DTS/AC3 and maybe it’s just the TV combo that is not allowing it to work correctly. I was reading up on the HDMI ARC spec and it sounded like AAC was not supported until ARC 2?
Don’t forget about the font. You sure it’s lreland not Ireland?
Thank you for making so many awesome things! I hosted a worker on AI Horde for a few weeks a while back. Do you know if old mining rigs are useful for that? The GPUs have a PCIe x1 connection but have 8GiB VRAM. Separately do you know if AMD Radeon RX580s are capable of contributing to AI Horde?
Every time I try to watch videos there I get
HLS.js does not seem to be supported. Cannot fallback to built-in HLS
Obviously I broke something on the Safari experimental features but no idea what.
Apparently this is a new driver which uses the open source headers and Linux kernel modules from nVidia’s proprietary drivers, and it doesn’t borrow very much from nouveau driver because that one has different names for things in their headers due to the clean room reverse engineering aspect of nouveau. Although I am not an expert on this so I could be wrong.
It would be nice if FTC or someone would sue them for anticompetitive behavior.
I see. GP said the same. Thanks for sharing!
My understanding is some parts have to be done sequentially even though the parts themselves are multithreaded, now the different parts can all be done in parallel.