In my quest to optimize media serving capabilities, one feature that stood out for testing was Quick Sync, particularly its hardware acceleration potential. I embarked on a comparison between Jellyfin and Emby, evaluating the efficacy of Quick Sync and its impact on system performance.
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Subtitles being “burned into” the frames instead of being a separate track, also known as hard-coded sometimes. This enables one to use subtitles on devices which cannot traditionally use them or screw up the display. But this means the server needs to re-encode each and every frame, which is a massive load on the server.