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Not saying this is not an issue but we've easily watched several hundreds of different releases, all with subtitles, never had the out-of-sync problem appear in

by 3np 4y ago

Not saying this is not an issue but we've easily watched several hundreds of different releases, all with subtitles, never had the out-of-sync problem appear in Jellyfin and not in other players (that is, sometimes subs are just inherently off-sync to the video file if it's from a different release etc). The other subs-related annoyances (takes time to appear; transcoding/DS behave differently) appear in web client only and not when playing trough a "proper" player (mpv-shim/kodi/whathaveyou), which also support convenient timing adjustments. Maybe switching clients is a work-around that works for you. jellyfin-mpv-shim would be the smoothest if you just want to continue issuing local playback ("cast") from the web interface.

counttheforks 4y ago
But I want to use the web client. Why is it inferior?
- 3np 4y ago
  Typically because you are trying to play media with codecs that aren't supported by your browser, and transcoding is either not working or working suboptimally. Native clients (like MPV, VLC, or the desktop app) tend to have better codec support and support decoding the native media stream directly. Some people work around this by making sure they only store supported codecs, either by being selective with media or offline transcoding (which can be instrumented with software like https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr). There's nothing "magic" here. Your options regardless of software are inherently: 1. Make sure to only store and stream supported media (as explained above) 2. Do the decoding and playback in a capable client (like mentioned above you can make it fairly seamlessly with the web client together with jellyfin-mpv-shim) 3. Live transcoding (may require tweaking drivers and codecs on your server; significantly increases server hardware requirements and load) More info here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support
  - counttheforks 4y ago
    How is any of that related to subtitles not working right in the web client? The media I download does not require transcoding.
    - ubercow13 4y ago
      The above linked github issue seems to be about problems playing back SRT subtitle formats which are not supported by browsers, so there is still subtitle 'transcoding' going on.

by 3np 4y ago

counttheforks 4y ago

But I want to use the web client. Why is it inferior?

3np 4y ago
Typically because you are trying to play media with codecs that aren't supported by your browser, and transcoding is either not working or working suboptimally. Native clients (like MPV, VLC, or the desktop app) tend to have better codec support and support decoding the native media stream directly. Some people work around this by making sure they only store supported codecs, either by being selective with media or offline transcoding (which can be instrumented with software like https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr). There's nothing "magic" here. Your options regardless of software are inherently: 1. Make sure to only store and stream supported media (as explained above) 2. Do the decoding and playback in a capable client (like mentioned above you can make it fairly seamlessly with the web client together with jellyfin-mpv-shim) 3. Live transcoding (may require tweaking drivers and codecs on your server; significantly increases server hardware requirements and load) More info here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support
- counttheforks 4y ago
  How is any of that related to subtitles not working right in the web client? The media I download does not require transcoding.
  - ubercow13 4y ago
    The above linked github issue seems to be about problems playing back SRT subtitle formats which are not supported by browsers, so there is still subtitle 'transcoding' going on.