jellyfin 4k cpu transcoding

[bingspamn]

Actually I think with that new of a Xeon CPU your cores are fast enough and plentiful enough to transcode 4K to 1080p H264 when needed for a couple of clients at the same time.

But I recommend your users use modern media devices on their TV (Fire TV 4K, Roku 4K, Apple TV 4K, Nvidia Shield Pro, etc) and the Jellyfin Media Player for Windows/Mac/Linux when possible to avoid transcoding when possible.

If your content is AV1 video based, it will only direct play on very modern devices (past 2 years). HEVC/H265 content, which is all 4K content, will work on most anything in the past 5 years

Thanks for the reply! More helpful than cpu bad gpu good which I already acknowledged in my post. Hope someone can chime in with confirmation those speeds are sufficient to handle it.