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What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server? (lemmy.world)

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I'm wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I'm not sure which device to use. I'm thinking a raspberry pi but I'm not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems

Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don't use a pi, it's not powerful enough

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[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Jellyfin server itself isn't all that intensive. My "server" is running on a 13y/o low-end desktop CPU (Pentium E5800, in case you're curious). However, if you noticed your laptop struggling, as others have pointed out, that's probably when it was transcoding. While I want eventually update my server with transcoding hardware, I just disabled transcoding completely for now, and it's pretty workable.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

What's the point of transcoding for local serving?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

If the client can’t play the codec because of some limitations, you are required to transcode. You can, of course config *arr services to pick only wanted codec, or skip "bad" codecs

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Interesting. I think ccwgtv can read h264 and h265, I guess av1 would be a "bad" codec then?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

It depends on device, my apple tv on my TV screen has sometimes problems with specific audio channels as well as with some 4k HEVC HDR files. Most it is performance of the device running the client, or it can also be some licensing stuff. On Apple TV, jellyfin uses the the video player provided from apple, I assume, at least in plex it is like that. This comes with the limitation, that some codecs are supported by apple.

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

To be fair, that laptop is running windows in all its bloated glory and that probably didn't help

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