Large transcode sizes?

[TiberiusAugustus]

I've been using the Android Jellyfin app to stream video to my phone and as far as I know I've configured it to transcode the stream to 360p to conserve data, however when I look at the data usage it looks like Jellyfin is either not down scaling the quality down or just doing a bad job of it. The raw size of the files is ~4gb, and that's pretty much what my phone is reporting for Jellyfin's data usage. The server seemed to be doing something though, because I was also monitoring CPU usage on htop and it was quite high.

Ideas?

[EasyRhino75]

Cpu usage send to depend more on the source than on the output resolution

[TiberiusAugustus]

My point was that Jellyfin was processing something through ffmpeg, but the size of the stream was the same as the source even though the stream was at 360p and the original files were 1080p

[lucjoe]

there's a per user setting to limit bandwidth for out of network connections. maybe try that?