Jellyfin Hardware Acceleration Documentation
Practical guide to Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Apple and Rockchip hardware transcoding, jellyfin-ffmpeg requirements, VPP HDR10 tone mapping and remote ffmpeg delegation.
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