MediaInfoLib VS UnicornTranscoder

can you use https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo and post the text output. maybe there is something malformed in the source that the render engine is unhappy with. as soon as i see sync issues that dont make any sense, i always blame the source media and look to reencode it or somehow repackage it (like with handbrake) into a known and not wierdo format. remember mp4 is just a box. there might be a cat in that box, there might not be a cat at all.

Footage specs - MediaInfo - please include the "Text" view of the file.

Is the problem with absolutely every AVC (h264) video you've tried, or only some? If it works with some and not others, can you share a MediaInfo report on a sample "faulty" file?

Need a little more info. What's the audio codec? Try converting the audio to AAC. Use mediainfo to see what codecs the file have.

Can you give the MediaInfo report from one of the files that Jellyfin is having a "hard time" with?

Some can be encoded with 8bit others with 10bit, the device maybe doesn't play well with 10bit encoded videos. You can use mediainfo to see if was encoded with 8bit or 10bit.

What are the specifications of the file? Run MediaInfo on it and post the results here.

Use MediaInfo on it and post the results.

Footage specs - MediaInfo - please include the "Text" view of the file.

Just having support for a remote transcoder, along the lines of unicorn transcoder or rffmpeg would be a good first step to let us start homebrewing a solution.

There's this project - https://github.com/UnicornTranscoder/UnicornTranscoder That lets you use a remote transcoder, but idk if the project is maintained anymore.

There are some projects to distribute transcoding jobs like the Unicorn Transcoder (last activity in 2021), Remote Transcoder (last activity in 2017) or the Kubernetes project (last activity in 2020)

Interesting, I wasn't aware they tweaked it so much. Projects like Unicorn Transcoder made it seem like you could just drop-in replace it with a different binary.

There was/is a Project for remote transcoding, the Unicorn Trancoder which might help but the last commit in that project was made in Oct. 2021.

On the other hand, there is a Project called Unicorn Transcoder which is to offload the transcoding job on a different machine. If that works with plex optimization or just the "on-the-fly" transcoder, I don't know.