Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 6 months agoAh, okay. So, if I understand correctly, unless I’m trying to have Jellyfin do what YouTube does with offering multiple resolutions and bitrates for video, I don’t need to bother with looking for a GPU that’s good at video transcoding?
If you want to serve multiple resolutions and bitrates you will probably want hardware that can do transcoding. However basically any graphics card (even integrated) will be able to transcode a video stream in real-time at a decent quality.
(If you wanted you can try to pre-transcode offline, but Jellyfin doesn’t support this well)
Pretty much, so long as your clients support the bitrate and resolution. (As others have said)
It’s not the bitrate and resolution it’s the video and audio codecs that need to be supported.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Or streaming to a device that doesn’t support your encoding. Something like an android tv that isn’t as flexible and may need on the fly transcoding. You can be careful to select a well supported encoding on the server if needed.