[NEED ADVICE] Jellyfin Hardware advice for 10 users

[mordax]

10 concurrent transcodes is a lot but you say that the CPU is at its limits. I have had the same nas and it should also have a Igpu have you enabled that?

4K transcoding for 10 users will be a struggle even for non-low power gpus i think you are exceeding what most consumer GPUs can handle with their build in media pipelines. You are getting into the field of workstation cards like an RTX A4000 here.

You know how they say, you can pick your friends but you can not pick your family. 🙂 I originally wanted to set this up only for the closer family, but the word spread out and now everyone is asking me for it.

I’ve already enabled the iGPU using VA-API for hardware acceleration, but even with that, the CPU is still being pushed to its limits. What’s your experience with the iGPU? Have you found it to be sufficient for handling multiple transcodes, or did you run into similar limitations?

Also, I’m curious—how would a potential setup with an RTX A4000 look like? What would you recommend for configuring the system to handle such high demand for 4K transcoding?

Thanks for the input!