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I'm trying to set up an arr/arr/arr box on a raspberry pi.

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[–] captcha@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its under Settings>Profile.

Theres like 3 levels of indirection going on here which is confusing but gives you a lot of control:

  1. Media has a "Quality Profile".
  2. Profiles are a set of ranked Qualities.
  3. Qualities define a Format and Size limits

You should create or edit a profile with only qualities of formats that jellyfin supports. Then set your media to only use that profile. I dont know for sure which qualities jellyfin supports but I only use Bluray, HDTV and WEB. For sure uncheck Remux.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I know where the setting is. I was saying it can't find anything using just webdl 720/1080.

I'll see if hdtv and blueray go through without transcoding, though.

edit: nope hdtv needs it

[–] captcha@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Strange. I dont need any transcoding with those formats and I'm using jellyfin too. Maybe my jellyfin instance is able to support more codecs somehow?

Edit: maybe its transcoding and I'm just not noticing it.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on anymore there. I forced it not to transcode things in user settings, and nothing would play. Then I turned that off, and the 1080p stuff with reasonable file size seems fine. IDK if it's transcoding or not, Jellyfin is kind of a weird black box.

[–] captcha@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I think the important thing is to ban those +50GB movie formats what will take forever to transcode.

I wonder how Plex handles this problem. Because jellyfin requires everything to be in a limited set of formats so the streaming works well. Does Plex not do that too?