Yeah after seeing this and another very detail answer it looks line my settings are too demanding and that is causing a slowdown. Since i do direct playing on everything i might just turn them down for the one friend who seems to be always on the weirdest player that needs transcoding. Thanks all!!

I don’t know where you’ve bought your N100 but i think it shouldn’t be able to do that. I have one too and it cant do even one 4k 10bit HDR transcode.

As i see in the results from the benchmarks we’ve gathered (here: https://gist.github.com/ironicbadger/5da9b321acbe6b6b53070437023b844d), my experience seems to be the common one.

While de N100 is a great value and low energy processor for a jellyfin server (especially if you direct play everything as is my case), I think if the objective is 4k hdr 10bit it will fall short as in my experience it usually transcodes at 8-9fps.

I was just starting to fiddle with the Starr programs so i didn’t realize that the proper way to use it is to sync the torrent clients directly to sonarr and radarr. The issue happened on those programs all the same though. (fixed it already though)

I got it to run, its fairly simple but i am having issues integrating it into the docker compose as it just… stops working… i’ll be looking into it today and tomorrow and if i succeed i’ll report back to you with findings.

yeah, that and other stuff its very hacky. I’ve now done a .env file to keep everything parametrized.

Thats good!! i’m now looking at how to set up caddy to do exactly just just that, then i’ll look at the vpns for outside connections. Thanks gor the advice!

A colleague at work said he was running a Raspberry Pi but in the end had to move to a more powerful system because he needed more power. AFAIK he’s use case is lighter than what i plan so i thought it wasn’t a viable solution. What you describe sounds very nice, especially because of the price of the Pi.

Would love to hear more people’s experiences with this setup.

Thank you for the comprehensive answer! I can see that storage is going to be a big issue here for all the media, I’ve been recommended in this thread to go for a NAS but their low RAM/high cost plus having to use their proprietary software is holding me back. Is a mini PC attached to a HDD enclosure a good solution? Won’t the USB speed be too slow or that isn’t an issue for a media server and the other utilities (I’m more focused on the media server as I am assuming that is the more taxing use case)

My worries with a NAS is their very small RAM (on NAS of reasonable price). When running several docker containers i fear that might be an issue if suddenly several *arr are downloading, pihole, tailgate… all running at the same time might mean that the NAS with 1GB (and t these are already expensive, most I’ve seen more on my budget are half of that) of memory might not be enough (i think).