2023-06-23, 07:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-06-23, 07:43 PM by TheDreadPirate. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'm running bare metal Jellyfin and Ubuntu and not TrueNAS + Docker (I'm assuming you would run JF in Docker). But my Intel J4205 (Apollo Lake, Pentium class Skylake based CPU and GPU/QSV) can handle three 1080p HEVC to H264 transcode streams with headroom for one or two more. The transcode quality is excellent.
From what I've read, and my experience, Intel based GPUs (iGPU or Arc) is the way to go for transcoding in Jellyfin. I don't know how much overhead there is when running Jellyfin in Docker in TrueNAS. But I imagine it isn't much, if any, because of the way Docker works.
I would say the biggest factor is whether you library is/will be encoded in AV1. And that would determine what range of Intel CPU are available that support AV1 decode acceleration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding
So I would say you can go pretty low end with the requirements you stated.
From what I've read, and my experience, Intel based GPUs (iGPU or Arc) is the way to go for transcoding in Jellyfin. I don't know how much overhead there is when running Jellyfin in Docker in TrueNAS. But I imagine it isn't much, if any, because of the way Docker works.
I would say the biggest factor is whether you library is/will be encoded in AV1. And that would determine what range of Intel CPU are available that support AV1 decode acceleration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding
So I would say you can go pretty low end with the requirements you stated.
