Hardware recommendations still up to date?

[fhireman]

Make sure to note the gotcha with intel cpus:

CAUTION
Intel 7-10th gen CPUs have been removed from this list, since the toolkit for these generations has been deprecated by Intel. If you own 7-10th gen CPUs with integrated graphics, please continue to use them for Jellyfin, as they are still perfectly capable of performing the task. If you are making a purchase decision, please consider something else instead.

I set up my new server with an Intel 12500, 16GB ram, OS(fresh Ubuntu server 24.04.1) on an SSD, media on a 6TB WD Red Pro and a freshly pulled jellyfin v10.10.2 docker image.
But I noticed when I watch any random episode it flares up ffmpeg CPU usage to about 1100%, and stays there even when the video is paused for a few minutes until I press back in the browser.
I don't recall my AMD laptop ever using this much CPU (and being this loud to cool things down) when watching an episode.

I was planning to put my jellyfin server in a big spare room anyway so I wouldn't have to deal with the HDD noises but man the sounds of the CPU cooling make me worried that it might overheat when 2 people in the house are playing an episode on it.

I tried setting up hardware acceleration by just changing the dropdown to intel quicksync(since this CPU has that) and save + restart jellyfin but each time I try to play something I get a playback error and nothing seems to be able to play. Changing it back to none makes things play again but with the beforementioned high CPU usage and noise.

Any ideas how to get the most out of my new dedicated jellyfin setup?