Over Covid, I got really into high quality music and purchased the best headphones I could afford (ATH-MX50) and listened frequently. Once I discovered Jellyfin, a whole new world opened up to me and I began to self-host movies as well as my FLAC library.
Present:
My parents want to cut the cord and I would like to help them by setting up a server for them. I’m techy and can handle some troubleshooting.
Requirements:
I’d like for it to have at least 5 profiles, no more than 2 concurrent streams
I’d like to add things to a “queue” from my phone and manage my downloads like that
4k media, perhaps transcodes to 1080p, but the local media is 100% 4k
Be able to SSH (or alternative) for remote debugging
Questions:
What hardware should I buy? I’ve built PCs, so mostly, what cpu and how much storage should I go for? I can afford quite a bit, so I’d like to buy the right tool for the job once with upgrades to storage as needed.
I know Jellyfin handles profiles, does Jellyseer handle the ability to automate downloads? Is this something the .arr stack can do?
Thank you for all your help, any advice is VERY appreciated. I just want to help my parents cut the cord
Plenty of players still don’t support AV1, though with a modern gpu you can brute force transcoding it on the fly.
I have a jellyfin test server running an an intel n95 and it can easily handle a couple of 4k AV1 to H265 transcoded streams on it’s own with decent image quality, but it struggles with 3 if the bitrates are too high. still, it’s more complexity than is needed considering AV1 only saves a small amount of space over a good H265 encode which are ubiquitous on the net.
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I’d suggest configuring it for AV1 and use a RDNA 3 GPU.
Hardware decode for AV1 is only available on fairly recent devices. Software decoding is not likely to work for high quality 4K video.
Plenty of players still don’t support AV1, though with a modern gpu you can brute force transcoding it on the fly.
I have a jellyfin test server running an an intel n95 and it can easily handle a couple of 4k AV1 to H265 transcoded streams on it’s own with decent image quality, but it struggles with 3 if the bitrates are too high. still, it’s more complexity than is needed considering AV1 only saves a small amount of space over a good H265 encode which are ubiquitous on the net.