High CPU usage when audio transcoding?

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On an 8100T, I'm not surprised with that level of utilization.  Four old, low TDP cores.

The audio is probably pegging one core while other ffmpeg tasks (demuxing, remuxing, moving data around, etc). are on several other threads.

I used to run Jellyfin on an Intel J4205 and audio transcoding, no video transcoding, used quite a bit of CPU power.

So this is just a normal amount of CPU usage then? Would a higher clocked CPU or more cores be the thing to look for? I was just surprised when I was looking for machines to build out I didn’t thing transcoding audio would be that big of a resource hog. I guess I could also just edit the audio files in the file itself