diff --git a/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html b/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html
index 475eb19737..93981c00eb 100644
--- a/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html
+++ b/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>
diff --git a/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.js b/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.js
index aa7e267cac..1aeabb2ebc 100644
--- a/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.js
+++ b/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')) {
diff --git a/src/strings/en-us.json b/src/strings/en-us.json
index 3b6bdf8119..ebbc49c5c9 100644
--- a/src/strings/en-us.json
+++ b/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",