i kinda wanna buy one to toss it in my backpack with a 2TB ssd full of movies and stuff to have a zero latency netflix anywhere i go.

im just a little bit confused because jellyfin docs say that its not a good idea at all to run it on a raspberry pi (or any other single board computer), so i thought i’d ask here if anyone has done that. i mean, just one user shouldn’t be that much for a raspberry pi, right?

  • cybericEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve run it on a pi 4 with no issues(streaming 1080p). If you’re not casting to another device you might want to check out Kodi though.

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Probably depends on the raspberry pi but jellyfin tends to be pretty heavy duty on its hardware requirements. You can probably get by on a modern raspi with transcoding off

  • OpticalMooseEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I ran it on a Ras Pi 3B+ and it did ok with 1080p and below. There were a few movies that had stuttering issues, so I’m guessing the Pi’s better with some codecs than others.