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    35 months ago

    Jellyfin is awesome! It does everything I could ask for and has been super stable for myself and a dozen friends and family. Almost all my media is 4k and some version of HDR. My cheap Intel ARC A380 and jellyfin handle everything beautifully. I tried plex but it’s hardware transcoding wasn’t as good with Intel GPU on Linux.

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      35 months ago

      How was implementing the A380 as a transcoder?

      Am certainly interested it (the series, not this card specifically) in buying it as an accelerator.

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        15 months ago

        Very easy if you’re building a new box. The latest Linux kernel (6 I think) has all the required drivers available, and no encoding limit like Nvidia. The Intel GPUs are pretty great for media transcoding.

        Personally I setup an old Dell r720 and stuck the GPU in that. My hypervisor is proxmox and I just run jellyfin as an unprivileged container.

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          15 months ago

          If I have the spare funds for a new server, this sounds like a lovely idea!

          Thank you :)

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            25 months ago

            Sure thing. My electric rate is pretty cheap though. You may be better off finding a small box with integrated graphics in the CPU. Then add storage separately. Connected NAS or something else.

            But I like the Dell servers since they’re so cheap for the value.