Are you using the official docker image? if yes, try linuxserver.io’s image. they also have a proper guide to using HWA.

A lot of times, I re-watch films. It helps with starting a film from a specific point, or skipping a boring scene.

Another reason is that I often show my friends and family some cool stuuf from between the films, like recently, I showed a cousin Neo vs Smiths scene from Matrix Reloaded, and I didn’t have to hunt for it.

Chapters make a lot of finding stuff easy.

Another use case can be, someone recorded a video of a family function and added scenes in post production for easy seeking.

I use my old MacBook air as a home server. I have installed Jellyfin via podman on Fedora 38. Containers make things a lot easier.

I recommended using linuxserver.io’s image.

This should not be happening, then. How have you set up Jellyfin? Is it in a docker container? If yes, how have you passed through your GPU? Have you tried turning off Hardware Acceleration? In which format is your media stored?

Web browsers and app require media to be transcoded in a format like AVC (H.264). Formats like HEVC does not play within browsers, as far as I know. You need to. turn on transcoding if you want to make files load 100% of the time.