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
It’s not that ras pi are not powerful enough, it’s more that they don’t have built in hardware encoding for h.264 and h.265. I currently use a pi4 and it “works” but I have a fancy encoding script that handles a queue. It’s not perfect and spoilers the CPU when processing. And I died a little when I read that the new pi doesn’t have it either. So in sort, make sure the video card\chip can encode and decode video and audio.