Hi,
as the title says, when streaming to the jellyfin app an a fire TV, the video freezes every two minutes. This happens when direct streaming, so it shouldn’t be a transcoding issue. Useing the website it works just fine.
Any idea how I can find out what this is?
Edit: I just noticed, when forcing transcoding by limiting the quality (Bitrate) on the client to lower values, it does not freeze…
that surely is the issue. you can convert it to mp4 with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy output.mp4
If you want to keep subtitles this will probably work:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0 -c copy -c:s mov_text output.mp4
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you could double check the codec with mediainfo. also check it is mp4.
container is mkv, codec says AVC
that surely is the issue. you can convert it to mp4 with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy output.mp4If you want to keep subtitles this will probably work:ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0 -c copy -c:s mov_text output.mp4Out of curiosity, why would that be a problem?
in my case if I use mkv it starts transcoding and mp4 works fine on every device (desktop, android app, Chromecast, browser)