Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
My server is an HP Small Form Factor Corei5 32GB RAM that I bought on a second hand shop. The thing I paid attention the most was the i5’s gen, as some older ones don’t include h265 transcoding acceleration, or sometimes h264. This is rather important for Jellyfin. ANything else, just go with it and try!
mhz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You definitely want an 8th gen (Intel) or better to have Jellyfin Quick Sync support. It’s what I have (i5-8400T) and it offer a fairly decent AVC (h264) and HEVC (h265) transcoding for my usage. However, for futur proofing consider an 11th gen for the AV1 support.
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Thanks for specifying. You are correct, and that is exactly the CPU I have in my SFF, too.