I tried “all” settings. I tried reading the logs and norhing helped. I had many months without issues. How do you guys debug it? The logs aren’t too helpful for me and there are too many settings for me to play with. I’ve got an intel GPU with eirher QSV or VAAPI. Disabling does not work either. CPU is normal, GPU is normal. RAM is not full.

Edit:

  • one drive was failing. SMART showed a dying drive. I replaced it and everything is smooth again. That is why I couldn’t find anything within the logs. And until today I didn’t know how to read io properly and check for smart status.

Things to watch out for

  • cpu usage
  • gpu usage
  • right gpu tools. Properly passed to container. Properly used by jellyfin.
  • proper transcoding settings with the gpu within jellyfin
  • ram
  • storage of drives
  • io write/read speed
  • jellyfin folders on ssd, media on hdd
  • healt / smart status of drives
  • lan bottleneck
  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    25 days ago

    Logs are the only answer. Without them, we can’t help you.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    24 days ago

    What do you mean by stuttering? It’s not keeping the buffer filled for the player? It contains extraneous consonants?

    Is this happening in the web interface? Android App? Jellyfin Media Player? Roku? Xbox? PS4? a Tesla dashboard?

    Is Jellyfin running in a container? Linux? Windows? TempleOS?

    But, to be serious, What have you tried so far? The answer is almost always some form of ‘look at the logs’ and ‘use Google on any errors that occur’ or if you’re not rabidly anti-AI and have access to an agentic AI with web access you can go that route.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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  • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    24 days ago

    When you start playing something, go into the admin dashboard on another machine and click the “i” and see if its trying to software transcode instead of hardware transcode, or does it say its direct playing?

    How are you running the Jellyfin server? As your own docker container or installed as a docker container in something like Unraid?

    If its a container then it needs access to the GPU (eg, --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri, or whatever device your GPU appears as), and if its installed in Unraid it needs access to the gpu, intel-gpu-top needs to be installed, and the Jellyfin container also needs a docker mod called “opencl-intel”.

  • statelesz@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    How are you accessing Jellyfin? Local only, via VPN and/or reverse proxy? Anything else you have changed on the system in general?

    • illusionist@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      Local only via LAN.

      I did not change much. Updates of fire tv stick, jellyfin. And now I changed so many settings that I don’t know which ones I had before. But, I tried a new clean jellyfin instance and it’s the same. Sometimes it works and I am happy to have found the right settings but then the next day it stutters again. There is no otherr service running.