Hardware for 4-5 4K and home lab

[TheDreadPirate]

You would probably still need a dedicated GPU. My i3-12100 can do 12 non-HDR transcodes. But can only handle 1 HDR tone mapped transcode. One of the devs stated that tone mapping requires a lot of graphics memory. Which is a problem because most motherboards don't allow that much memory to be assigned to your iGPU (512MB is the max for my board).

Generally speaking it is recommended that you keep your 4K content in a separate library and pre-transcode all that content to 1080P SDR to put in your main library. And reserve the 4K HDR content for clients capable of direct playing them.