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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (6 children)

A mini PC is a good middle ground. Mostly for the video transcode and machine learning power.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    That's what Iam aiming for at the next hardware update. I don't have the space for a server rack and a SFF desktop would also not fit into my home, so a miniPC it'll be. I cannot wait to move to x86.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure if I'm alone in this but I have a terrible aversion to transcoding. I know the loss of quality is probably not that huge (depending on the original codec) but I just can't bring myself to get past it.

    As a result I have a tiny arm based box with a 2tb SSD and I'm happy out.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You want to avoid it everywhere possible of course.

    But when the GF tries to use Jellyfin on whatever random device that doesn't have the codec support to play it, it is nice to have.

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