I have some 1440p videos that I’ve downloaded off youtube but they use either the AV1 or VP9 codec. I’d like to watch these on my phone but it can’t direct play those codecs and my iGPU can’t transcode them so it has to be done in software extremely slowly.
So I’d like to transcode the videos ahead of time into either h264 or h265 which my phone can direct play but I don’t want to get rid of the originals. So can I have two copies of the same episode but using different codecs? How would I name them? Would jellyfin be smart enough to send the right video based on what my phone supports?
The videos are currently named like so:
'Rimworld with Francis John - Anomoly - S01E01 - An Unlikely group of researchers.mkv'
'Rimworld with Francis John - Anomoly - S01E02 - New weapons, new threats, new research.mkv'
'Rimworld with Francis John - Anomoly - S01E03 - Small colony equals few options.mkv'
I don’t think that’s a use case the developers really envisaged.
I know under movies (and possible shows as well), you can specify versions:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies
But I think you’re expected to select the version at playback time.
When I’ve had this issue, I’ve just transcoded to a format that all my targets can read without drama and kept the resulting file.
If your keen to experiment, I’d be curious to hear the outcome.