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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by yokonzo@lemmy.world to c/technology@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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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any more recent Intel CPU with quicksync works well too. I have a $100 CAD i3 powering Jellyfin and it's able to handle ~5 1080p streams going at a time without any issues.

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

+1 for QuickSync. Intel 9th gen can transcode HEVC and they don’t have a transcode session limit like Nvidia. An i9-9900K will transcode a half dozen 4K streams without breaking a sweat. I don’t even run a GPU in my plex box anymore.

If you’re running your media server in docker, make sure you pass /dev/dri into the container so it can find the GPU.