Got a fairly new setup going, and I love it…when it works. Half the time, I open my Jellyfin clients and it permanently hangs on loading anything. On my computers I can still access the files via network folders, so everything it connected. I’m mostly curious if this is a known issue or if I messed something up.

Edit: Solved, it was a networking issue and a transcoding issue.

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    What’s the CPU and memory usage on your server when this happens? I’ve only experienced this when I’m maxing out a resource or when the network drops out.

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    1 year ago

    Direct play is the goal really. Audio transcoding is fine, but if you can avoid Video transcoding you should not have any skipping

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    1 year ago

    I just did a new setup last weekend and everything works just fine. docker on linux for the server and the app on android tv, if that matters.

    Do you mean it during movie playback or already when you enter the application?

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      1 year ago

      Sometimes my devices struggle to start playing anything. The app starts up as intended, and my files show up, but when I select them…it just hangs on loading

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        1 year ago

        Are you transcoding and did you go through setting up hardware acceleration? Mine stalled on playing before setting up hw accel, usually on larger 4k movies it would take about 30 seconds to load and seeking was slow enough to not be usable.

        I followed the docs and got hw accel working (bit of a pain since I was using proxmox with LXC) and now an 80 gig movie plays and seeks immediately from my NUC.

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          1 year ago

          Do you have a graphics card or are you using the extensions on a CPU?

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            1 year ago

            Just the Intel CPU for mine I’m on a NUC7i5 so not enough for the newest but still enough to take the load off

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          1 year ago

          I set up hardware acceleration and restarted the server, but its still happening. I’ve noticed it frequently happens on my desktop, but not so much on my phone

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                1 year ago

                Saw in another comment you mentioned out of the house is this only happening outside of your network? Could be upload speed issues or ISP throttling if you’re not accessing via VPN into your network. Haven’t heard of them throttling Jellyfin Plex etc but could be possible.