I used to have a jellyfin server on an old desktop but now my only spare computer is a raspberry pi. It should be able to install the app but would a raspberry pi 3b+ actually be able to run a jellyfin server at a usable level? I’ll probably mainly use it for CD rips, so it shouldn’t be super demanding but the raspberry pi isn’t super powerful either. What do y’all think?
Sure, it can serve files up to players that can decode them. You’re going to be absolutely unable to do any transcoding at all and if you try to serve up anything with a bitrate higher than the network adapter can handle you’re gonna have problems. I bailed on using a Pi4 as a jellyfin server and got a chepo N-100 based box off Amazon (BeeLink something something with 2 NICs) for under $250 and haven’t looked back.
You might be fine if you’re sticking to small files that are handled natively by their players. It only costs your time to try it out.
@Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world in my experience you can definitely play music and watch movies as long as the client doesn’t need transcoding
How would I know if the client needs transcoding?
If the client doesn’t support the codec or resolution of the media then it’ll need transcoding
I found using Kodi helped resolve video codec support in my case. It was for AV1 nlon the Chromecast 4k, which doesn’t support AV1, it seems to mostly work for smaller AV1 encodes. I guess it is using software decoding.
I have done it for one stream at a time. However, transcoding gave it a hard time. If at all possible I would recommend a Pi 4.
I thought Pi 4 can’t do transcoding for jellyfin? Am I mistaken? Or maybe it’s only 4K it can’t do?
the pi 5 lacks hardware transcoding. pi 4 could do it, but it was deprecated by jellyfin.
maybe consider picking up a (used) mini pc instead.
