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

  • PoutinetownEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    What’s the point of transcoding for local serving?

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      11 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

      • PoutinetownEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

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

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          11 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.