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I have my own server but just curious what hardware you're running and kind of connection?

I tried Jellyfin a couple different times and could never really get HW accelerated decoding working well. Plex runs well enough but Jellyfin pegs the CPU at 100%.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Currently using an NUC i5 8th gen. The Intel integrated graphics hardware transcoding seems to work fine on Jellyfin clients. It so far only fails inside Chromium browsers. Everything else plays fine either as direct play or transcoding.

Setting it up isn't as simple as Plex but got it running with a little tinkering. On the client side you just need to make sure the app is set to using an internal media player, on Android at least the default is to use the web player, change to integrated player and it works smooth.

Couldn't get it working on an AMD integrated GPU though which is a shame because my AMD Ryzen is a lot more powerful than an i5.

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nobody 2y ago

My HTPC is a NUC i7 11th gen. Plex works great out of the box and I had a hell of a time setting up vaapi in Jellyfin. I'll try Jellyfin again because I really would prefer to use it. Maybe third time's the charm.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Are you using Windows, Linux, or Mac out of curiosity? I'm using Linux and it works quite well especially since it can fallback to the VAAPI integrated graphics driver built into the Linux kernel.

nobody 2y ago

Fedora. IIRC Fedora stopped including support for Intel integrated graphics (it's been over a year since I last tinkered with it so I may be misremembering.) So I had to find the right collection of packages to get it working. I'm a little apprehensive about messing with it again since it works well.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Ah I can't speak for Fedora, not used it in ages, but I find that Debian related distros have excellent hardware support out of the box for the most part. I come across exceptions only very rarely. Alpine is good too.