• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I have hard time believing Plex’s software transcoding is more performant than Jellyfin’s hardware accelerated trandcoding

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      2 months ago

      My problems are less about speed and more about compatibility. I have Plex and jelly thing set up next to each other as containers on the same media database. There’s quite a number of videos that play on Plex that will not play on jellyfin. It could be problems between the two clients.

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        2 months ago

        I’ve understood that “performance” in this sort of context mean how quickly a given task is done

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          2 months ago

          They’re mostly just using FFmpeg behind the scenes, which is exactly how Plex did it to start with. Plex spent a long time working on hardware acceleration, it’s hard to tell exactly what they’re doing at this point but it’s safe to say they spend a hell of a lot of time on it so I doubt they’re just using FFmpeg for hardware acceleration anymore.

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            2 months ago

            Hilarious if they are, they’d just be getting people to pay to use their own hardware

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              2 months ago

              I mean it’s not entirely impossible, FFmpeg has also pushed to improve themselves over the years.