I haven't seen a specific way to explicitly disable transcoding, like I did on Plex. If I try to play a video in the browser, it obviously needs to transcode my hevc videos, and the CPU in my NAS gets demolished(though it does technically allow the video to play). But as long as I use a player that is capable of direct-play (so the desktop app, or the Android app), it will direct-play automatically, without transcoding. Hasn't been a problem so far. I plan to upgrade my NAS at some point, and the new build will be more than capable of transcoding.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it has a lot to do with hardware. The issue I have with this is mainly the lack of this option, I want to control what happens. But the weird thing is my devices are capable of playing the raw files over smb shares, using a regular player, no problems whatsoever. Then the jellyfin client decides that it can't play these things and stuff goes downhill. It's a shame, I'd always rather go with open things but there are limits.