Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
I recently set up a Plex server on a machine I was given that I also run my home assistant server on.
The machine crashes every few weeks and it is me thinking really hard about getting something else to use. I’d love to use a Pi, but have yet to find one at anything close to MSRP, so I’m eyeing different netbooks that I can run Linux on.
The rest of my home theater is just about where I want it for now (Onkyo TX-NR5100, Klipsch Reference all around with the 820f’s for my mains, r-32c center channel, r-52 bookshelves for my rears, r-120sw, and r-41sa for upward firing atmos which I’m not thrilled with and want to switch to in-ceiling speakers) and fills my small media room very, very well. But I see another few thousand dollars, at least, in my future here.
I don’t know if Plex supports this feature but I’m running Jellyfin on a RPi 4B and Jellyfin support live transcoding for video formats that are not natively supported by the streaming client. Although RPi 4B supports hardware encoding of h264 1080p30, it performs badly.
So if you’re using live transcoding maybe opt for hardware with more oomph.