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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 2 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.614s | source
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irusensei ◴[13 Nov 22 09:36 UTC] No.33581500[source]▶
I’ve stopped using Plex-like stuff. I don’t really need it because transcoding isn’t as relevant as it was before. Pretty much every device I own can play h265 without CPU overhead.

What I’m doing is basically a Samba file share + Infuse/Kodi. Thats it. You pretty much get the same results. Infuse can sync between devices using cloud sync and trackt, which can be used through a hide-my-mail account. Kodi can sync watched shows through said Trakt account.

Infuse costs me a dollar a month and Kodi is free. I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU that can transcode. Anything that has disks and saturates the gigabit connection is enough.

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ClumsyPilot ◴[13 Nov 22 10:38 UTC] No.33581801[source]▶
> I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU

I have a home server with i3 8100 desktop, I wanget to get Intel Quicksync transcoding to work

The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire

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1. tlamponi ◴[13 Nov 22 13:25 UTC] No.33582813[source]▶
> The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire

out of interest, did you try it on another OS and did it work OOTB there?

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2. katbyte ◴[13 Nov 22 15:33 UTC] No.33583938[source]▶
Fwiw if your Linux install has the right drivers for the igpu it does just work (at least on debian)

Have a 10th? (Frost) gen nuc and debian buster was a pain while bullseye just worked.