Combine server and client into one machine

[johnnychicago]

N100/Intel UHD will be good for 1-2 4K HDR -> 1080p transcode streams

That sounds reasonable for my needs. If there's a local user, there might be one remote user. With two remote users, we'd rarely have a local user. And of course by far not everything here is 4k and needs transcoding down...

Kodi will be the best client but LibreELEC may not be the best OS for this job, Kodi already handles things like CEC and 'remote control' based input, the jellyfin clients just running on linux won't offer the same level of mediacenter interface

Ah, good to know Kodi does these things already, and they're not libreelec specificities. It's been a while since I cared, Raspberry Pi's with Libreelec have been good for me for a long time

i would recommend this

Debian with Kodi running as the desktop in standalone as a service, this is basically how libreelec works
https://linuxaudiofoundation.org/install...e-bookworm

Ah, there's a reasonable modern Kodi in sid, that's nice

Jellyfin in a straight docker, no Proxmox, no VM
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin

That's a given. I assume to just copy my compose file and get going.

**you might find your HDMI is inadequate as i did with the newer N100, the output is 12bit and you will get a blank screen if you do not use 48Gbps HDMI cables and components

Oh - could you elaborate some here, please? Currently the Raspberry 4 with Libreelec feeds into an Onkyo 646 receiver and from there to a TV. Never much cared about HDMI specificities, so far things were plug and play for me on that front.

Thanks a lot!