Personally I have a secondary external SSD I use for my cache and transcode directories so that my transcodes aren’t throttled by being read from and written to the same disk.

Also of note is that Jellyfin does have a cron job built into it to clear the transcodes directory. You can see it under Dashboard -> Scheduled Tasks -> Clean Transcode Directory. I have mine set to run every 24 hours.

I use my Jellyfin server as a Moonlight box for one of my TVs, works fine for me. It’s an Intel-based mini-PC so the hardware decoding for Moonlight takes basically no CPU usage.

Correct. The -a stands for all

https://www.dungeonmastersvault.com/

Not self hosted but I believe it is open source. Their discord has content packs that cover all officially released content.

If you’re on AppleTV, another client worth checking out is Infuse, which is a paid app that has a Jellyfin intrgration. Swiftfin is quite a bit newer so it might still be less feature-complete.

That feature exists on several Jellyfin clients. Which client in particular have you been using that lacks it?

jellyfin app

You can from e.g. the Android app or from the desktop app Jellyfin Media Player, but you can’t from the AndroidTV app or the Roku app, so it really depends.

There’s a Kodi Jellyfin plugin, so you can use Kodi as a client for the JF server

doesn’t work in the app

Which app? Jellyfin has many client apps for many different platforms, some with more features than others.

It’s specific to music, per the OP. As far as boosting the volume goes, it varies based on your client and devices, but on many TVs, sound bars, and AVRs, you can enable “Night Mode” and it’ll turn on a compressor that basically makes all content played on said device sound closer together in volume (so less of a dramatic swing between Jellyfin volume and other stuff)

Okay, so it’s not in the 10.8.z series. That means it’ll be in the next major release, 10.9.0

Any SSD should be plenty fast. My server uses a 7200RPM hard drive mounted as a network drive via NFS.

I have one of these and it works great. Intel CPU means great hardware transcoding support on Jellyfin, but it has very low power usage.

I haven’t personally opened it up, but it does internally use a replaceable m.2 NVME SSD according to the info that came with it, so you should be able to.

Same here on my end. I’ve heard some bad stuff but they’ve been fine for me too

Hey, for what it’s worth I ran Jellyfin on an Intel Celeron N3350 stick PC for a few years and just recently upgraded to a Celeron N100 mini-pc. The fanless stick worked great. With hardware transcoding it was a lot more powerful than the Pi.

Yep, 4k to 4k tonemapping, even, which was one of the use-cases my previous Celeron N3350 server couldn’t handle (it got ~14 fps)

It’s pretty sweet. I went the other way, starting on a Pi 4, moved up to a cheap ($110) Celeron N3350 device, then finally this little beast when I started getting HDR content and needing to transcode with tonemapping. 4 times the RAM, double the cores and it’s just way faster in general.

It’d also be perfect for light desktop use IMO

Yeah, in my case I host my hard drives on a cheap ARM Synology NAS and an external drive plugged into an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi. Just have an external SSD plugged into the Jellyfin server as a cache/transcodes drive

I get both with one of these

Super low wattage at idle but it transcodes like a beast using QSV