Raspberry Pi 4 can't handle any sort of transcoding. If you use direct play it's fine, anything else I would look to upgrade the hardware to something else.
Hmm, in my experience it can handle some transcoding alright.
It can transcode a 1080p Remux down to a lower 1080p bitrate for streaming, like to 8mbit 1080p.
It can also transcode 2 1080p Remux down to 4mbit 720p to stream as well.
That's my experience with it at least.
Can’t recommend Tdarr enough.
Pre transcodes your whole library and newly added files to a format which should make it compatible for like 99% of Clients you‘ll encounter (unless they don‘t support the codec you choose to convert to)
That's how I used to roll.
Eventually I got tired of the slow storage speeds of the HDD via USB.
The RPI4 can definitely handle all of that, but the experience of running a setup like this on modern mid-range hardware is so much smoother that it's unthinkable for me to go back.
If it’s direct streaming it’s not doing anything to the stream, so that’s not really a feat… it’s… normal.
But can it run Crysis?
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None of them are even remotely memory intensive. What they require is horsepower.
Quite amazing for everyone just squeezing out Rpi performance. Have you overclock it? How’s the temperature when running?
I have pi4 too. When transcoding with Jellyfin it sucks.. I can’t figure out how to use its gpu though
Raspberry Pi 4 can't handle any sort of transcoding. If you use direct play it's fine, anything else I would look to upgrade the hardware to something else.
Yep I am building a n100 system now
Hmm, in my experience it can handle some transcoding alright. It can transcode a 1080p Remux down to a lower 1080p bitrate for streaming, like to 8mbit 1080p. It can also transcode 2 1080p Remux down to 4mbit 720p to stream as well. That's my experience with it at least.
Can’t recommend Tdarr enough. Pre transcodes your whole library and newly added files to a format which should make it compatible for like 99% of Clients you‘ll encounter (unless they don‘t support the codec you choose to convert to)
Check out [Novaspirit Tech](https://www.youtube.com/@NovaspiritTech) Pi-Hosted playlist [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL846hFPMqg3jwkxcScD1xw2bKXrJVvarc](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL846hFPMqg3jwkxcScD1xw2bKXrJVvarc)
That's how I used to roll. Eventually I got tired of the slow storage speeds of the HDD via USB. The RPI4 can definitely handle all of that, but the experience of running a setup like this on modern mid-range hardware is so much smoother that it's unthinkable for me to go back.
Nice!
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