10.10 included much better HDR format specificity and support. It’s possible your issue was fixed.

Generally the app is better. Compatible with more container formats, audio formats (surround sound, Dolby digital, etc), and has hardware supported decoding for h265 video in addition to h264.

At least in the case of a Jellyfin server, you can download media locally when you know you’ll be without internet

The official app does download files for offline viewing, but it downloads the file to your downloads folder, like a web browser.

Findroid downloads the file to the apps internal storage and plays it back in-app.

Some other platform-native third party JF apps like JellyFlix and Streamyfin allow you to transcode your downloads for smaller files, different resolution, and file compatibility. They also download to the app storage and play back in-app

If you switch the devices line to

- /dev/dri:/dev/dri

as other have suggested, that should expose the Intel iGPU to your Jellyfin docker container. Presently you’re only exposing the Nvidia GPU.

QSV is the highest quality video transcoding hardware acceleration out there. It’s worth using if you have a modern Intel CPU (8th gen or newer)

Jellyfin doesn’t need any particular setup to work directly from LAN because it doesn’t ever try to use a central login provider the way Plex does.

The only reason OP is struggling with it is because they set it up so that they can only connect to it via Tailscale.

The very first time you connect you’ll need to do it from a web browser, rather than the app. Once you have your username/password setup you can do everything else from the android app

I have one of these that I use as a Jellyfin server. It’s not affected by those problems and has been performing more than adequately for my purposes, after setting up hardware transcoding

Also, Roku or whoever has no way of verifying you pirated it and aren’t just watching a blu-ray you owned and ripped to your jellyfin server

Right, I just mean if your connection speed is faster than your server can transcode, then the transcode speed will be the bottleneck

It’s limited to the transcode speed, but it’s important to keep in mind that e.g. if you transcode to a lower resolution especially it’ll usually transcode faster than realtime.

FYI Jellyflix also supports that

Glad to hear it. Should be relatively straightforward to fix it, now that you’ve identified the issue.

In order to see if it’s client-side or server side, let’s try another client. Try installing Jellyflix and see if it gives you the same issue when you lower the bitrate

Which client are you using? Are you switching the max bitrate during playback, or while it’s paused?

This. Jellyfin has a direct HDHR integration and works as a DVR directly with one.

The person you’re replying to linked their literal reliability stats lmao

Jellyfin doesn’t fetch data from the web outside of its scans, generally speaking. Probably this is a case of your cache being slow or your video needing to be transcoded. I’ve used my server when my internet was out several times and never had an issue.

It’s probably from the jellyfin server itself. How recently did you set it up? Do you have a large library? Could be still scanning your media.

Is this happening when you try to play the file, or when you go to look at the details?