There is some discussion regarding JMP (Jellyfin Media Player) and its lack of development the past year. Jellyfin Official appears open to replacing JMP with an alternative, meaning pushing users to a different application.

What desktop clients are people using currently? Are there any in the works that you believe could replace JMP?

If you are developing one, please reply and advertise it here!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

unless everyone is using hardware acceleration

I think that's what (almost) everyone does. My little N100 works just fine with QSV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@qjkxbmwvz @gccalvin Not using HW accel. Ryzen 3600G. Even 4K transcodes work fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Intel processor N100? Isn't hardware acceleration for GPUs? Or am I misunderstanding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t hardware acceleration for GPUs?

Not necessarily, in this case they're referring to Intel's QuickSync (Video) - or QSV for short, which is Intel's way of doing video encoding/decoding on dedicated hardware in the CPU. On the AMD side, there is Video Core Next although I'm not very well versed with the video encode/decode side of things so I'm not sure how it stacks up with QSV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Video Core Next isn't listed in Jellyfin's hardware acceleration list. I tried AMD iGPU passthrough with VA-API, but ran into issues. It seems I need to figure out:

How are people on Firefox not having to transcode? Do they just not use mkv's or h265? Looking at the documentation, Firefox will need to do transcode, which lines up with what I'm seeing on my end.
I need to figure out how to get iGPU to work so transcoding doesn't hurt the server so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Does that even have an APU? I don't think it would have any transcoding hardware without one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You may be right going off this.

Also this is hilarious:

Looks like I'll be looking into a dedicated gpu, and AMD isn't recommended, so it'll be Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Before you run off and get Nvidia, take serious consideration of the Intel ARC line. They're relatively cheap and have great transcoding performance. They're supported by Linux out of the box, and I had no problem getting docker passthrough enabled. Unlike Nvidia the drivers don't have built-in limits for how many simultaneous streams you can transcode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've started looking into ARC as that looks like what Jellyfin supports the best. Would you mind telling me what ARC you are using and how many simultaneous transcodes you've been able to handle? It looks like the Pro A-Series is the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I have an A380, but I bet an A310 would also do the job fine.

I've never actually tested the performance of simultaneous transcodes. However, my server generally sees 2-5 active users on a busy night, and nobody has complained about buffering so far.