Supplying Jellyfin with media from network share and possible transcoding

[ravinsinnasami]

Hi all,

I'm looking to setup my jellyfin in a proxmox and have it use medias that is stored on another pc. Would I be able to share those medias as a network share to proxmox and then make jellyfin use it?

1. Would doing so result in any lag when streaming medias? Likely to have 1-4 users only [Playback device is a mi box s gen 1].
2. If I were to stream the media remotely [streaming to my in-laws place], if I used tailscale, will there be any transcoding taking place? [My internet speed is 500Mbps down and 100Mbps up, sadly no option for symmetrical or higher upload speed].  (will be getting them a mi box s gen 2]
3. Should I need transcoding power, would a P400 be enough?

I'll buying a used optiplex to run jellyfin along side blue iris in windows, with the following spec:
Dell Optiplex 5050 SFF i5 7th Gen + 16GB RAM + 256GB SSD

Thank you.

[TheDreadPirate]

1. Any network storage needs to be mounted to the OS of whatever is running Jellyfin. Then you provide that mounted path to Jellyfin. It does not add any additional lag (as long as the NAS is on the same LAN).
2. Depends on the media codecs and what the client supports.
3. If you're going to spend money on a GPU, get an Intel Arc A310 or A380 GPU. Much better modern codec support, cheap, plentiful, also has half height SFF form factors.