diff --git a/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html b/src/controllers/dashboard/encodingsettings.html
index c9dac5e44b..9324e5a5d2 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 6e254ced46..cbe479fcb3 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 11b833f6c8..eccd1f699f 100644
--- a/src/strings/en-us.json
+++ b/src/strings/en-us.json
@@ -1602,6 +1602,8 @@
     "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.",
     "AudioIsExternal": "The audio stream is external",
     "VideoBitrateNotSupported": "The video's bitrate is not supported",
     "UnknownVideoStreamInfo": "The video stream info is unknown",