Merge pull request #5330 from gnattu/clarify-encoding-format-options

Add clear help text for encoding format options

src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html

@@ -123,13 +123,15 @@
                 </div>
 
                 <div class="checkboxListContainer">
+                    <h3 class="checkboxListLabel">${LabelEncodingFormatOptions}</h3>
+                    <div class="fieldDescription">${EncodingFormatHelp}</div>
                     <div class="checkboxList">
                         <label>
                             <input type="checkbox" is="emby-checkbox" id="chkAllowHevcEncoding" />
                             <span>${AllowHevcEncoding}</span>
                         </label>
                     </div>
-                    <div class="checkboxList allowAv1EncodingOption">
+                    <div class="checkboxList">
                         <label>
                             <input type="checkbox" is="emby-checkbox" id="chkAllowAv1Encoding" />
                             <span>${AllowAv1Encoding}</span>

src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.js

@@ -227,10 +227,8 @@ $(document).on('pageinit', '#encodingSettingsPage', function () {
 
         if (this.value === 'videotoolbox') {
             page.querySelector('.videoToolboxTonemappingOptions').classList.remove('hide');
-            page.querySelector('.allowAv1EncodingOption').classList.add('hide');
         } else {
             page.querySelector('.videoToolboxTonemappingOptions').classList.add('hide');
-            page.querySelector('.allowAv1EncodingOption').classList.remove('hide');
         }
 
         if (systemInfo.OperatingSystem.toLowerCase() === 'linux' && (this.value == 'qsv' || this.value == 'vaapi')) {

src/strings/en-us.json

@@ -1603,6 +1603,8 @@
     "EnableIntelLowPowerHevcHwEncoder": "Enable Intel Low-Power HEVC hardware encoder",
     "IntelLowPowerEncHelp": "Low-Power Encoding can keep unnecessary CPU-GPU sync. On Linux they must be disabled if the i915 HuC firmware is not configured.",
     "LabelHardwareEncodingOptions": "Hardware encoding options",
+    "LabelEncodingFormatOptions": "Encoding format options",
+    "EncodingFormatHelp": "Select the video encoding that Jellyfin should transcode to. Jellyfin will use software encoding when hardware acceleration for the selected format is not available. H264 encoding will always be enabled.",
     "AudioIsExternal": "The audio stream is external",
     "VideoBitrateNotSupported": "The video's bitrate is not supported",
     "UnknownVideoStreamInfo": "The video stream info is unknown",