quick question, is a rpi2 too weak, to run jellyfin?
i got pihole, nextcloud, baikal running, thats about it.
i installed qbittorrent and jellyfin.
when i watch something on jellyfin, it buffers every three seconds.
transcoding is disabled, btw.
thanks guys.
p. s. i got an rpi3b+ laying around, should i use that instead? i mean would it make a difference? and as a replacement or an extra dietpi/jellyfin server?
You could run htop in a terminal session to watch the computational load of the cpu.
In addition you can monitor the cpu temperature via ‘cpu’ command.
It depends on the video format and resolution as well. And apart of CPU load (probably not such an issue without transcoding), the USB/MMC and/or network bandwidth might be a bottleneck as well: It is very limited anyway and USB+Ethernet share the same bus, limiting each other. This has become a little better with RPi 3B+, much better with RPi 4.
So if CPU usage is at max, then the RPi 3B+ will most likely help. If not, then it might not help so much, but still worth an attempt.
thanks for your help guys,
when i use the webplayer, i checked htop, and indeed the cpu load was high.
appaerently it was transcoding (not even sure how to fully disable it).
anyways, if i use vlc player via networkstream it runs fine, and i downloaded the jellyfinmediaplayer via snap, which also plays fine. apparently the transcoding then is done by the client side cpu.
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