[lamasery]

Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.

[ghastmaster]

You can disable transcoding in the server settings or at the user level. Your client device would have to support the file being directly played of course.

[mystraline]

Intel ARC 380's are ideal at 4k realtime transcoded streams. And theyre cheap as well.

You could probably do a sticky round robin reverse proxy with a few backends doing transcode.

The biggest issue is bandwidth, but you probably knew that.

[haunter]

Even better is a passive cooled GPU like the Palit 3050 KalmX https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 Too bad they are not producing them anymore

[mystraline]

Absolutely not.

Nvidia arbitrarily locks number of encodes between 2 to 5 streams, depending if you're willing to run hacked firmware and drivers.

Multi-encoding on nvidia is a "professional card option" only.

Intel's ARC line has no such arbitrary encode/decode limit. And they are significantly cheaper as well.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h...

[ruined]

it's 480p. every box i've used in the last two decades could do that on the fly without breaking a sweat.

[zamadatix]

The Wii is just barely within the last 2 decades but it does very much struggle with 480p decoding of most anything (and even sweats a decent amount on 240p) as it was pretty low end for even 20 years ago.