I tried “all” settings. I tried reading the logs and norhing helped. I had many months without issues. How do you guys debug it? The logs aren’t too helpful for me and there are too many settings for me to play with. I’ve got an intel GPU with eirher QSV or VAAPI. Disabling does not work either. CPU is normal, GPU is normal. RAM is not full.
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They are asking how to go about debugging. Not a specific answer. I’m sure they’d appreciate one if possible as anyone would. But in both the title and the body they ask how to debug.
When you start playing something, go into the admin dashboard on another machine and click the “i” and see if its trying to software transcode instead of hardware transcode, or does it say its direct playing?
How are you running the Jellyfin server? As your own docker container or installed as a docker container in something like Unraid?
If its a container then it needs access to the GPU (eg, --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri, or whatever device your GPU appears as), and if its installed in Unraid it needs access to the gpu, intel-gpu-top needs to be installed, and the Jellyfin container also needs a docker mod called “opencl-intel”.
What do you mean by stuttering? It’s not keeping the buffer filled for the player? It contains extraneous consonants?
Is this happening in the web interface? Android App? Jellyfin Media Player? Roku? Xbox? PS4? a Tesla dashboard?
Is Jellyfin running in a container? Linux? Windows? TempleOS?
But, to be serious, What have you tried so far? The answer is almost always some form of ‘look at the logs’ and ‘use Google on any errors that occur’ or if you’re not rabidly anti-AI and have access to an agentic AI with web access you can go that route.
TempleOS?
If this is the case, my recommendation is to power the server off fully and unplug it before having a priest use holy water to exorcise whatever daemon is causing the problem
Do you have another playback device you can test with?
FireTV sticks and honestly a lot of consumer televisions are always suspicious when there’s random stutter issues.
Just start listening to dubstep and you’ll stop noticing 😆.
Maybe run lm-sensors and make sure the CPU/GPU isn’t being thermothrottled? I’d usually look at dmesg and look for red stuff. Any hardware issues are usually pretty obvious.
Try other apps. If you youtube or VLC behaves the same, the problem may be outside of jellyfin. If not, it narrows it down.
If could even be the server not being able to transcode in realtime. Try watching a file known to already be in a suitable format. It should direct stream and be much less load on the server. I’ve seen server encode CPU saturation and it does kinda look the same as client decode stutter. If it’s the server, you’ll probably see the same stutter from another device such as a phone.
Logs are the only answer. Without them, we can’t help you.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications VPN Virtual Private Network
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How are you accessing Jellyfin? Local only, via VPN and/or reverse proxy? Anything else you have changed on the system in general?
Local only via LAN.
I did not change much. Updates of fire tv stick, jellyfin. And now I changed so many settings that I don’t know which ones I had before. But, I tried a new clean jellyfin instance and it’s the same. Sometimes it works and I am happy to have found the right settings but then the next day it stutters again. There is no otherr service running.
Try clean jellyfin but revert one version prior instead of the update you are on. At the very least, this will let you rule out version for jellyfin. The fire stick update may have broken it too. Updating and then having issues overwhelmingly points to the update being the primary suspect.
Are you using wireless? I’m guessing your router is occasionally being oversaturated with traffic. I would turn your streaming quality down to around 2mb and then stream to your device. You can open up Jellyfin in a browser and check the steam information in the Jellyfin Dashboard to check the speed. Keep bumping it up if you want better quality.
If you’re trying to prevent transcoding, then I suggest downloading or ripping lower bitrate content.
If you happen to have a spare router, I would try adding it as an access point and keep your Jellyfin source machine and streaming device on that access point. That should keep the traffic from going through your primary router.
