If you have the cash: Get a (used) NUC or mini-pc.
You'll benefit more from the RAM and x86 and you can transcode.
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I think, I have to save a default-comment for this. Old thin clients are incredibly cheap, small and full blown x86 machines.
Used mini PC FTW
I 2nd this.
I'm running mine on Pi4. It works, but I wouldn't really recommend it. It needs frequent reboots and tends to choke on anything over 1080.
I have one of these and it works great. Intel CPU means great hardware transcoding support on Jellyfin, but it has very low power usage.
I ended up getting myself an old Chromebox CN-62 and putting MrChromebox Bios on it. It ended up being at least twice the speed of a Pi 4, and is a new enough generation intel chip to have QuickSync on it. I ended up getting the chromebox for like $35 on ebay. Which was subsequently also cheaper than any of the available SBCs as well. Plus it already came with 16gb storage, and removable/upgradeable SODIMMs. (2gb of ram)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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I'm running this on a Pi 3b+, however the performance leaves more to be desired, when using Jellyfin. With Plex, this is not an issue at all. Smooth sailing, assuming you'll not be watching bluray rips of gigantic file size