Option to disable the players hardware encoding

[Victoare]

I have some movies witch are stutters on the "chromecast with google tv" device (tried with the older, and the newer 4k model as well. same behaviour). By stutter I mean at the same timestamp the picture freezes for a couple seconds (the audio plays fine) and then resumes. The movies is coming through without any server side encoding.

Tried the files on local pc and in my mobile phone using jellyfin app and they are played without any stutter. Tried in the app to set exoplayer and libvlc. It stutters with both settings. Tried plex on the ccwgtv at some point if they do something different but it behaves the same. Installed VLC as a separate app, loaded up the file and it also stuttered, but I found the "disable hadrare encoding" setting in the app and lo and behold it fixed the problem.

So if it is possible to extract this option (maybe not just libvlc, but exoplayer can be parametered this way too) and make available in the menu where the prefered player can be selected, it would be helpful in such cases.

[DwayneGoddem]

The same issue has been happening for a LONG time on the Firestick 4K we have been asking for this option but nothing has happened yet.

The workaround is to install the full VLC and disable hardware encoding. In the JellyFin app set to external player. It works but you lose the the resume function etc.