I’m currently using a https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/, which has this cpu: Samsung Exynos5422 Cortex-A15 2Ghz and Cortex-A7 Octa core CPUs.

It is obviously not enough for real time transcoding, which is ok because I do not want it. But getting subtitles out of files and other remuxing tasks are slow as well, I’d like some more power without building a full custom hptc.

Is an intel NUC worth it? Or is there any other significantly faster raspby-clone?

  • IAMA_Alpaca@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used a libre-computer renegade for a while (basically a more powerful pi 3b), but recently upgraded to a used optiplex for the quicksync goodness :)

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lenovo Tiny m920q desktop box I believe. It’s been pretty great with everything I’ve thrown at it, and quick-sync has been working as far as I can tell, though I’m streaming to my workstation 95% of the time so I rarely have to transcode.

    • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wow that’s actually pretty reasonably priced too. Thanks for the link!

      I just wish there was an integrated box like this with 10g links instead. Would make a pretty nice router box IMO

  • Zackyist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Orange Pi PC (Allwinner H3, 1GB LPDDR3, HEVC support built-in). I was skeptical that the HEVC decoding would actually work with Armbian as it does with OpenELEC but it would seem so. At least I’ve had no problems with it while I previously had severe transcoding delays for x265 videos when running Jellyfin on a RasPi 2.

  • grunt@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i got a beelink from amazon with a 8th gen i5. works great. transcode everything i throw at it.

      • grunt@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        nah running ubuntu 22.04 LTS on it. Only way to get tonemapping to work properly is to use unix. Runs like a dream, also have nextcloud running on it and some other person stuff. love that little box.

    • sup@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same, it’s a great machine and I’ve had no issues so far. It can even transcode 4K without breaking a sweat

  • CCatMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m running an old laptop with a 2nd gen i5. It can transcode video of it has to, but still be at 100% cpu lol. Transcoding audio is no issue for it. Anything above the spec of my old laptop are going to work great. That would be the i5 2nd gen with 4gb of RAM. Lol

  • CtrlAltDelicious@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Running on 11th gen. Intel NUC11ATKC4 (Intel Celeron N5105), it was pretty cheap (compared to other Intel NUCs) and the Celeron is good enough for running Jellyfin and everything else I run with a good transcoding performance @ non-60fps movies at 4K.