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Ideal lightweight setup… - Dcompton - 2025-07-18
Hello all,
I am new to self hosting and have a question. I recently dumped the “Live” portion of Hulu and wanted a cable free solution for local network channels. I had an old Hauppauge 950Q laying around the parts box along with a Raspi 4. I built a TVHeadend/Jellyfin box solely for the purpose of getting OTA live tv to the smart TVs in the house. I have everything working, but the stream is sort of glitchy and stuttering. I have a small form factor intel machine running Ubuntu. Should I start over and use that instead? Keep in mind, I don’t need DVR or access to stored media. I am only doing this to DIY a HDHomerun nox basically. Thanks!
RE: Ideal lightweight setup… - user5621 - 2025-07-21
Well you could start watching streamed live TV and then check the CPU usage on the raspberry pi 4 to see if your hitting a high utilization also if you have memory left available.
I imagine your intel machine is faster unless it is extremely old. it will have better cooling, more memory etc.
The system requirement are very low for the Hauppauge 950Q but I don't know if Jellyfin is trying to reencode the live mpeg-2 streams before sending it to your TV's.
RE: Ideal lightweight setup… - bitmap - 2025-07-21
Check your TVHE settings and your Jellyfin settings to see if transcoding is happening. Additionally, hard-wire the pi if it's not. The only other advice I can give is to ensure your OTA antenna is getting good SNR. My setup isn't perfect (I have a Hauppage USB tuner) but it's decent when I mess with settings -- in my case, forcing transcoding made sure everything matched up.