I really want to get into jellyfin streaming, but I am a noon and have not much knowledge about hardware and video tech, and I could need some help! Please apologize if some of my questions seem uninformed.
My plan is to store my DVDs on an external HDD, I already have some movies stored with makemkv.
I do not want to spend a lot of money, at least for now. Synology is out of question because of enshittification. But I don’t have 300-500€ to spend on a mini PC, for a project I might abandon.
What I have is an old Raspberry Pi 3, where I could set up a Jellyfin server on.
From what I gathered, it will be slow AF, but I guess for trying out the technology it should be enough to start?I want to stream to mobile devices, for example an Android phone or tablet, or my Hisense TV. I know already there is no Jellyfin app for the TV, but I could imagine setting up another pi as a client for it.
Now there is another problem: I do not really understand what transcoding is, or if any if my devices support the H265 codec making transcoding unnecessary.
Can you recommend me a low cost setup, let’s say max. 150€? Would a Pi 4/5 work, or does it need to be a mini PC?
I am not really interested very much in 4k, but if it is possible, why not.
Bonus question: How easy would it be to setup remote streaming so my SO could watch with their android phone from home?
mwhj28@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Lots of x86 machines are hitting the curb this week because they won’t run Windows 10. One of those with a Linux distro installed will do what you want. Follow the directions in Jellyfin’s documentation and you should be good. Adding your devices to a Tailscale network is the fastest way to be able to access your content outside of your home network. FireTV has a Jellyfin client and can also be added to Tailscale.