by lamasery 4 days ago
Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.
Intel ARC 380's are ideal at 4k realtime transcoded streams. And theyre cheap as well.
You could probably do a sticky round robin reverse proxy with a few backends doing transcode.
The biggest issue is bandwidth, but you probably knew that.
Even better is a passive cooled GPU like the Palit 3050 KalmX https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 Too bad they are not producing them anymore
Absolutely not.
Nvidia arbitrarily locks number of encodes between 2 to 5 streams, depending if you're willing to run hacked firmware and drivers.
Multi-encoding on nvidia is a "professional card option" only.
Intel's ARC line has no such arbitrary encode/decode limit. And they are significantly cheaper as well.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h...
You can disable transcoding in the server settings or at the user level. Your client device would have to support the file being directly played of course.
it's 480p. every box i've used in the last two decades could do that on the fly without breaking a sweat.
The Wii is just barely within the last 2 decades but it does very much struggle with 480p decoding of most anything (and even sweats a decent amount on 240p) as it was pretty low end for even 20 years ago.