Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server

• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is it a bad idea?

  What the breakdown of cost of Pi (and accessories) vs mini pc? What’s the power consumption breakdown?

  I’m certainly not say it has to be a Pi; I’m trying to point out that a Pi could host a Jellyfin server without transcoding.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It could but a Raspberry Pi these days will cost you $100 by the time you buy one, a case, a powers supply and SD card. Not to mention the raspberry pi does not have hardware acceleration.

    By comparison you can pickup a minipc for around the same price and it will be much more efficient as it has hardware acceleration.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How much does it cost in power to run the Pi? The computer?

      I’ve got a Pi3B running Plex and, with one stream and no transcoding, there is no choppiness to any video.

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