Hardware transcoding matters, but Jellyfin feels much better when the library is clean, predictable, and trustworthy first.

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Convenience costs you with Plex, but the alternatives require more work.

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I'm in the design phase of building out a server for colocation, and one of the things that would be potentially useful on it would be hardware video transcoding. I don't want to use Intel, and ARM ...

Live transcoding on the web has quickly evolved into the optimal workflow for streaming live events. In this schema, you send a single efficient stream to the cloud, transcode the stream to produce a ...

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