I recently setup Jellyfin pretty thoroughly on a small form media centre with 4 x 2TB SSD drives for the media and went through all of this for direct to TV, via client to iPhones and to an XBox etc.
I passed that on three weeks back to a son for his household so I don't have local server to log into anymore and double check (the documentation online tends bear an approximate resemblance to current versions).
Your first link is a not a list of settings, it's an explanation.
You can disable transcoding for a specific device (or user). However, it just means that the client will not show some videos, even though it can play them in reality.
This is determined by the device profile shipped with the DLNA plugin (!). You used to be able to replace that, but that broke for me with the recent changes wrt DLNA.
I don’t even mind transcoding, except that it also maps hdr to sdr, which is just awful.
So I now use jellyfin on computers and mobile, and a minidlna setup on my main tv. That's ridiculous, but seems like the only way to make it work within the hour or two I had for that.
> Your first link is a not a list of settings, it's an explanation.
The Jellyfin documentation is poor and lags. I would screen shot what I worked out for myself but that ship's sailed and moved on. I did have to tweak some profiles but ultimately I got all media playing on pass through with no transcoding so it is doable.
My apologies for not being in a position to cough up details, that was my second pass through Jellyfin, I now like it much better than I did the first time through. If I set up a third instance for someone else I'll take to the time make notes and maybe feed them back into the community docs (if they're relatively easy to update).
But do note — I had this working until DLNA support was removed from core in 10.9.0, which released in May last year. Maybe your experience predates that?
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/transcoding/
I recently setup Jellyfin pretty thoroughly on a small form media centre with 4 x 2TB SSD drives for the media and went through all of this for direct to TV, via client to iPhones and to an XBox etc.
I passed that on three weeks back to a son for his household so I don't have local server to log into anymore and double check (the documentation online tends bear an approximate resemblance to current versions).
This might also shed some light : https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-purpose-of-force-transcode-in-u...
as it talks about the manual editing of the preference | option files for servers and users.