There is some discussion regarding JMP (Jellyfin Media Player) and its lack of development the past year. Jellyfin Official appears open to replacing JMP with an alternative, meaning pushing users to a different application.
What desktop clients are people using currently? Are there any in the works that you believe could replace JMP?
If you are developing one, please reply and advertise it here!
I also simply watch in my browser when on desktop.
If it needs to transcode, then it transcodes. I don’t see the need to put extra effort in trying to avoid it.
What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding? Have you changed anything?
My server has a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and a single transcode about maxes it out on CPU usage. Even when playing a 1080p file. This can’t be normal if others are just “dealing” with transcodes, unless everyone is using hardware acceleration. I’m using Firefox as the client.
Edit: I did turn off Allow encoding in HEVC format and Allow encoding in AV1 format and things are a bit better. Still not sure how people avoid transcoding on Firefox though.