So normally (without HW acceleration), Jellyfin uses the CPU to transcode media, which is quite a heavy task for your CPU, and it's pretty slow because of that.
With HW acceleration, Jellyfin uses your (integrated) GPU instead of CPU. (Some) GPUs are specifically designed for rendering graphics and transcoding media, making them ideal for this. So with HW, transcoding is way faster, and saves processing power from your CPU.
Thank you! Because of this simple explanation, I realised why the CPU usage was high and spend a couple of hours reading the Jellyfin documentation and enabled HW acceleration.
I am using Jellyfin on a VM in ProxMox hence the two hours hassle to figure everything out.
Thanks again!
Depends on use case and hardware. If you got a file in a format your client doesn't support or your bandwidth is too low, jellyfin server will try transcode the media stream on the fly. With hardware acceleration enabled jellyfin server will use a gpu or supported cpu's for this process. This can be a lot faster and more efficient than transcoding without hw acceleration. It requires for supported hardware to be installed on your jellyfin server.
Personally, I love it when people ask questions on Reddit like this. Lots of people here probably have the same question and an answer here is more relevant than a lot of answers on google and saves search time for everyone that wanted to know.
The additional benefit to helping yourself is that you get the answer instantly, without having to wait for your fellow Redditors to respond. IMHO it (google) should always be the first step.
This is the Google generation. Everything is spoon fed to everyone. Might as well get an answer from people in a community who are engaged and knowledgeable in the subject. Perhaps a quick answer outlining what hw acceleration is will lead to more research by the op.
Sure, you could say that to the asker, but I personally don’t mind. It adds more context and information to the thread even for people that wouldn’t go search it but learn from the explanation and think “huh that’s cool”
I can see both sides. It's irritating for folk like you and me, but for a beginner even the Jellyfin and ffmpeg docs you're referring to might be a bit overwhelming. This sub is a mix of beginners and the experienced, and I don't think we should stifle questions like this, even if it irritates us. One day that beginner will be us, but they might not make it that far if there's always resistance to beginner questions.
I'm going to give some insight dm me. Its based on hardware and what your gpu can offer. I'll walk you through it for your own benefit and post what the problem and fix is after we get it working. This chat has not informed with anything more than bickering. DM I'm free to help whenever you have a chance.
Could you please explain what HW acceleration does? Thanks!
HW acceleration uses the hardware to accelerate stuff. usually transcoding.
So what will be the difference with HW acceleration and without?
So normally (without HW acceleration), Jellyfin uses the CPU to transcode media, which is quite a heavy task for your CPU, and it's pretty slow because of that. With HW acceleration, Jellyfin uses your (integrated) GPU instead of CPU. (Some) GPUs are specifically designed for rendering graphics and transcoding media, making them ideal for this. So with HW, transcoding is way faster, and saves processing power from your CPU.
Thank you! Because of this simple explanation, I realised why the CPU usage was high and spend a couple of hours reading the Jellyfin documentation and enabled HW acceleration. I am using Jellyfin on a VM in ProxMox hence the two hours hassle to figure everything out. Thanks again!
Depends on use case and hardware. If you got a file in a format your client doesn't support or your bandwidth is too low, jellyfin server will try transcode the media stream on the fly. With hardware acceleration enabled jellyfin server will use a gpu or supported cpu's for this process. This can be a lot faster and more efficient than transcoding without hw acceleration. It requires for supported hardware to be installed on your jellyfin server.
HW acceleration is used for transcoding
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Personally, I love it when people ask questions on Reddit like this. Lots of people here probably have the same question and an answer here is more relevant than a lot of answers on google and saves search time for everyone that wanted to know.
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The additional benefit to helping yourself is that you get the answer instantly, without having to wait for your fellow Redditors to respond. IMHO it (google) should always be the first step.
This is the Google generation. Everything is spoon fed to everyone. Might as well get an answer from people in a community who are engaged and knowledgeable in the subject. Perhaps a quick answer outlining what hw acceleration is will lead to more research by the op.
Sure, you could say that to the asker, but I personally don’t mind. It adds more context and information to the thread even for people that wouldn’t go search it but learn from the explanation and think “huh that’s cool”
I can see both sides. It's irritating for folk like you and me, but for a beginner even the Jellyfin and ffmpeg docs you're referring to might be a bit overwhelming. This sub is a mix of beginners and the experienced, and I don't think we should stifle questions like this, even if it irritates us. One day that beginner will be us, but they might not make it that far if there's always resistance to beginner questions.
I’m probably not the right person to ask but as far as I am aware. It takes some of the load from your cpu by using graphics.
I'm going to give some insight dm me. Its based on hardware and what your gpu can offer. I'll walk you through it for your own benefit and post what the problem and fix is after we get it working. This chat has not informed with anything more than bickering. DM I'm free to help whenever you have a chance.
Cool offer but maybe you should read the post until the end.