I’m wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I’m not sure which device to use. I’m thinking a raspberry pi but I’m not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems

Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don’t use a pi, it’s not powerful enough

  • atomWood@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    9 months ago

    A Raspberry Pi will work as a Jellyfin server, but it will really struggle if it has to transcode any media.

    If you want your Jellyfin server to be up and accessible at all times, I would suggest getting a second hand PC. I’m personally a fan of small form factor mini PCs. Anything with a 7th gen Intel processor or newer, with integrated graphics, will be able to hardware transcode anything but AV1.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Hmm, I have an old MOBO and parts from back in the day I used to play garrys mod all the time, maybe that would work

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’m running Jellyfin on Pi now and it’s exactly like this. I either make sure I download the right version from the start or use handbrake to do a bulk conversion. Works just fine with H264 (H265 I don’t recall).