This looks like a way better interface over Synology photos which is fine, but missing the search and map feature. You need to see if they are hiring 😂

Yeah, you can re-encode on your PC to a compatible codec and that should solve your issues

Why do you need to transcode video?

I would vote for running jellyfish off the NAS with powerful hardware Intel 8th Gen and up you should be fine. I personally don’t transcode video on my server only audio.

If I’m not sure about a video format working, I’ll manually re-encode the video with handbrake to h265 or av1. I also have used handbrake to create lower resolution copies of the same movies to reduce bandwidth needs when roaming on LTE.

Loaded the docker for fun on my NAS. I don’t need it, but other users in my home may appreciate this.

I think you can use Synology photos as the backup for the images and this as your front end … But not sure haven’t done it.

Surely you can’t be serious!

I went with bodhi.

I was having an issue getting nfs working and it just left a bad taste for me. I think your right I should just mout it and be done.

I run jellyfin on my NAS and the arr stack on a separate PC. I then manually sftp things over like and animal. My PC is running bodhi.

Reduce the need to transcode.