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by PokestarFan 850 days ago
Jellyfin is fine if you direct stream only, but any form of transcoding will kill your server. It is a bit hard to get other people to download the desktop Jellyfin Media Player or Infuse on iOS, and I don't think Android has a version of the app with massive codec support.
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What do you mean? My Jellyfin Server is transcoding movies and is not dying, at all.
Jellyfin does fine transcoding 4k on my decade old i7. And it'd probably be a hassle to install it on other people's phones, but the Android app can use MPV as it's media player
Their ffmpeg and/or container is very dlow to update to support new hardware too. They still don't supportthe newer amd onboard gpus for example