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AlecStewart1st OP ,

Great point. I don't know why I didn't think about that.

AlecStewart1st OP ,

Ah, okay. So, if I understand correctly, unless I'm trying to have Jellyfin do what YouTube does with offering multiple resolutions and bitrates for video, I don't need to bother with looking for a GPU that's good at video transcoding?

AlecStewart1st OP ,

As the project mentions:

Even though there are builds available online for these platforms, they are unofficial and from a separate project. If you do encounter issues on these platforms, please ask for support in their respective support channels first.

This that project:

https://github.com/Thefrank/jellyfin-server-freebsd

AlecStewart1st OP ,

I'm beginning to realize I haven't looked into this as much as I should've. 😅 So for most people, with what @AtariDump has mentioned, a raspberry pi with 1 or multiple hard drives (if you really want) is a good start.

AlecStewart1st OP ,

I mean, right now, that's definitely not on the table.

4K would be nice, obiviously, but I don't think I myself am to act nor do I want to act as the alternative to Plex for a bunch of family and friends. 😆

AlecStewart1st OP ,

I don’t think anyone here would recommend BSD

I'm guessing this is due to issues of support, compared to Linux?

AlecStewart1st OP ,

Good point. So what we're really talking about then is

  • something like a raspberry pi
  • 1 or 2 hard drives for base storage
  • 1 external hard drive as a backup
AlecStewart1st OP ,

If you really want Intel, just get an N100 or N300. Low power, Intel HW transcoding on iGPU on Linux kernels 6.3+, and can handle Jellyfin no problem.

Didn't think about that either. I'm finding I didn't give this as much thought as I should've.

You can get a minipc with everything you for $175 for a no name brand, or maybe $250 for a more well-known brand.

But why do that when I could spend +$600? 😜

AlecStewart1st OP ,

If you’re gonna spend that level of money, you may as well go for an M1 Mac Mini.

I was joking. I don't feel like shelling out $600 for a starting media server.

AlecStewart1st OP ,

It's the interest in how well the HAMMER2 filesystem works for everyday storage, as well as how swapcache performs. Not much besides that, plus I've generally decent experiences with Net and OpenBSD.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/

AlecStewart1st OP ,

If you are not too stuck on bsd

Not really. It's more out of the curious of how DragonflyBSDs HAMMER2 filesystem works. I've good things about it and ZFS on FreeBSD. ZFS on Linux I've heard is still getting up to where it is on FreeBSD.

AlecStewart1st OP ,

Is ZFS on Linux getting better? I've heard mixed things. I use BTRFS on my daily driver, and I really like (ab)using the file compression with zstd.

AlecStewart1st OP ,

Plus, ZFS supports native encryption!

Hmm, I think that was the one I was wondering about. I use Gentoo, and when I was initially setting everything up on my machine, I saw there were a lot of caveats for using ZFS on linux from the Gentoo wiki entry on it. Maybe that's changed or those issues are no longer related to native encryption specifically.

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