Is it a bad idea to use a laptop as a Jellyfin media server? Is it far better to use a desktop for that?
@hehemrin Probably depends on what you are serving, how many users, etc.
Im using a Raspberry Pi from 2014 to serve music and 480p movies to my phone.
@hehemrin Here are the settings I use on the transcoding menu, which works well enough for me:
@ike Thanks! Is that Jellyfin or something else? I haven't really considered a Raspberry Pi for this. But seems as it is an option or a starting point to explore how it works and upgrade eventually.
@hehemrin Yeah this is jellyfin. I expect that if you are running on even a semi-recent laptop, you will have a lot more processing power than my raspberry pi and better UX with streaming higher bitrate media.
@maurirope @hehemrin I think I did once. I think I changed it back when I was on my local home network vs traveling and then forgot to change it back to Fast. Good point.
@hehemrin I use an external 1TB SSD via USB.
I did have to fuss with the streaming settings quite a bit to get acceptable performance. When I rip my DVDs, I also transcode to the appropriate resolution. When I watch a movie on the mobile app, there is about 10-15 seconds of buffering.
For music, streaming in mp3 or flac is just fine and no optimization is needed.