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    85 days ago

    worse transcoding performance

    You have to pay on Plex to use hardware acceleration for transcoding. Lmao

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      55 days ago

      It doesn’t make the point any less valid. I would pay for better transcoding performance in jf if it were an option.

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        25 days ago

        I have hard time believing Plex’s software transcoding is more performant than Jellyfin’s hardware accelerated trandcoding

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          05 days ago

          My problems are less about speed and more about compatibility. I have Plex and jelly thing set up next to each other as containers on the same media database. There’s quite a number of videos that play on Plex that will not play on jellyfin. It could be problems between the two clients.

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            35 days ago

            I’ve understood that “performance” in this sort of context mean how quickly a given task is done

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              -15 days ago

              They’re mostly just using FFmpeg behind the scenes, which is exactly how Plex did it to start with. Plex spent a long time working on hardware acceleration, it’s hard to tell exactly what they’re doing at this point but it’s safe to say they spend a hell of a lot of time on it so I doubt they’re just using FFmpeg for hardware acceleration anymore.

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                  25 days ago

                  I mean it’s not entirely impossible, FFmpeg has also pushed to improve themselves over the years.

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      -15 days ago

      I’m not using HA so that’s irrelevant to me. It’s just cpu encoding on my threadripper server.