Raspberry Pi for hosting

[Nathan5471]

I am thinking about hosting a Jellyfin on a Pi 5 when they release. I was wondering if I would see an increase in performance by buying the 8GB version that would be worth paying $20 more. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[Deleted User]

see https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...celeration

note the section highlighted where it says -

"While hardware acceleration is supported on Raspberry Pi hardware, it is recommended that Jellyfin NOT be hosted on Raspberry Pis or other SBCs. ..."

[nyanmisaka]

Memory capacity doesn't magically double video encoding performance.

If you don't need transcoding or plan to disable transcoding entirely, then it's no problem.
The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder, which will make common 4k and 1080p transcoding tasks to easily tax it's quad-core Cortex-A76 CPU.

If you need smaller video sizes (down-scaling), subtitle burn-in, and HDR-to-SDR tone-mapping, it won't do the job or can't keep up with real-time playback.
Please turn to x86 - Intel N100 boxes or 7th Gen and newer SFF PC, which can provide far better performance and perf-per-watt than RPi 5 in terms of video transcoding.

[bitmap]

The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder

[nyanmisaka]

The RPi 5 removes the H.264 hardware encoder and decoder

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentatio...ml#bcm2712

https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcamera...91f96faefd

According to RPi 5's documentation and libcamera commit, if one wants to transcode to H.264 8-bit 1080p30 video using the superfast preset in FFmpeg libx264 encoder, the RPi 5 is indeed capable of doing one.
But it is foreseeable that the video coding quality of that preset may be worse than AMD's h.264 hw encoder. Good luck

[bitmap]

Haha, it was more of a reaction to, essentially, the removal of compatibility with a VERY prevalent codec. I started my server on an rPi many years ago and quickly realized it was NOT powerful enough to handle nearly anything I threw at it. They're great little machines but video has NEVER been a strong area. Appreciate the follow-up, I'm more shocked at the decision but will read up and see if I can understand the rationale...

[Rogério Lucas]

A long time ago I made a video player in python for an embedded project with rpi4 and it worked smoothly with V4L2 support.

Then those who don't know how to use it blame V4L2 and remove support.