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Raspberry Pi for hosting - Nathan5471 - 2023-10-22
I am thinking about hosting a Jellyfin on a Pi 5 when they release. I was wondering if I would see an increase in performance by buying the 8GB version that would be worth paying $20 more. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
RE: Raspberry Pi for hosting - Deleted User - 2023-10-22
see https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration
note the section highlighted where it says -
"While hardware acceleration is supported on Raspberry Pi hardware, it is recommended that Jellyfin NOT be hosted on Raspberry Pis or other SBCs. ..."
RE: Raspberry Pi for hosting - nyanmisaka - 2023-10-23
Memory capacity doesn't magically double video encoding performance.
If you don't need transcoding or plan to disable transcoding entirely, then it's no problem.
The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder, which will make common 4k and 1080p transcoding tasks to easily tax it's quad-core Cortex-A76 CPU.
If you need smaller video sizes (down-scaling), subtitle burn-in, and HDR-to-SDR tone-mapping, it won't do the job or can't keep up with real-time playback.
Please turn to x86 - Intel N100 boxes or 7th Gen and newer SFF PC, which can provide far better performance and perf-per-watt than RPi 5 in terms of video transcoding.
RE: Raspberry Pi for hosting - bitmap - 2023-10-23
(2023-10-23, 02:02 PM)nyanmisaka Wrote: The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder
![[Image: giphy.gif]](https://media2.giphy.com/media/ukGm72ZLZvYfS/giphy.gif)
RE: Raspberry Pi for hosting - nyanmisaka - 2023-10-24
(2023-10-23, 06:42 PM)bitmap Wrote:(2023-10-23, 02:02 PM)nyanmisaka Wrote: The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/processors.html#bcm2712
https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcamera-apps/commit/b90f65abd5e220e564eb6c2d5e9d6691f96faefd
According to RPi 5's documentation and libcamera commit, if one wants to transcode to H.264 8-bit 1080p30 video using the superfast preset in FFmpeg libx264 encoder, the RPi 5 is indeed capable of doing one.
But it is foreseeable that the video coding quality of that preset may be worse than AMD's h.264 hw encoder. Good luck
RE: Raspberry Pi for hosting - bitmap - 2023-10-24
Haha, it was more of a reaction to, essentially, the removal of compatibility with a VERY prevalent codec. I started my server on an rPi many years ago and quickly realized it was NOT powerful enough to handle nearly anything I threw at it. They're great little machines but video has NEVER been a strong area. Appreciate the follow-up, I'm more shocked at the decision but will read up and see if I can understand the rationale...