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puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Mobile@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Running Jellyfin off of a Dell Optiplex 3060 and encoding all of my media in AV1. I’m able to stream my movies just fine via the Apple TV.

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All dependent on the hardware you run the server on. Give it a good GPU and you’re off to the races

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

    Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t encode in AV1, I use HEVC. But while your argument is not unreasonable, it misses the component of file size and amount of disk space required.

      HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264. While it does require a more modern GPU, it can be run on lower powered Intel CPUs with an integrated GPU just fine, so long as the CPU is new enough. Though it can only handle 2-3 streams on a CPU like the Intel chips in a ZimaBoard. So you need to choose wisely.

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      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264

        In some scenarios, it can. Generally I’d say it’s about a 20-30% reduction in size.

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      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).

        Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build

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      • mriormro@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I guess it’s a platter vs energy cost thing. For me it’s way cheaper to buy more storage for my little puck PC that can handle ~4 streams at 1080p and sips power.

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• Pissio@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Infuse player with jellyfin or direct nfs/samba if in same network

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  • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Infuse is not free. I love it and use it on my Apple Devices, but just wanted to have this as an FYI.

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• Drun@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re ok with Plex, then you’ll be ok with Jellyfin

  And we also have metadata manager, so you don’t have to rename your TV show files every time!

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• domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what’s your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

  I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

  You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

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  • puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

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  • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

    Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain’t no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.

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