Before Client 0.12, HEVC support was enabled on specific devices.ĦHEVC decoding is supported on Apple devices with the A8X chip or newer and at least iOS 14ħHEVC decoding is only supported on Windows 10 with the HEVC Video Extension from the Microsoft store.Ģ MPEG-4 Part 17: MP4TT Subtitles Audio Compatibility 10Bit may be supported depending on your device.

Support for AV1 in Jellyfin is tracked in jellyfin#3129.ĥAs of version 0.12, HEVC is enabled on all devices running Android 5.0+, but early generations of the Amazon Fire may not work yet. As of writing this (05.2020) there is no hardware support on most devices yet.

Refer to you manufacturer for supported codecs.ĤAV1 support is experimental and often too slow for CPU decoding. Most new Android phones in the higher price range and many '4K' AndroidTV devices have VP9 hardware decoding support.

Client reports that HEVC is supported and attempts to Direct Stream.ģMay be (partially) dependent on Hardware support (can be compensated with CPU decoding on Android). Sorted by efficency (excluding bit depth)ġHEVC support is potentially available by offloading to the operating system, but this has not been tested.ĢAndroid playback is currently broken. Test your browser's compatibility for any codec profile. Decoding is less intensive than encoding. This is the most intensive CPU component of transcoding. Subtitles can be tricky because they can cause Direct Stream (subtitles are remuxed) or video transcoding (burning in subtitles) to occur. If the video codec is unsupported, this will result in video transcoding. Direct Stream will occur if the audio, container or subtitles happen to not be supported.

If the media is incompatible for any reason, Jellyfin will use FFmpeg to convert the media to a format that the client can process. This means the container, video, audio and subtitles are all compatible with the client.

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