Shoutout to @jellyfin - I've been really enjoying this piece of software the past few months, and it's given me the drive to clean up my music collection so it presents nicely in the media library. :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The thing stopping me from using this is energy usage... I try to keep a small footprint, and the server running my VMs, NAS and Home assistant is a low power embedded Celeron, it draws about 20-30watts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm wondering what I'm missing here... I have proxmox, and jellyfin is running on a lxc container, along with other stuff. The whole server uses 10W on idle. It does jump to 35W when transcoding, but is that bad? Is jellyfin notoriously power hungry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have a discrete video card on my server, I'd need one for transcoding, when I tested adding one, just having it in raised the idle power consumption by 10-20W

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use graphic card at all. But I have disabled transcoding for all users. They have to use a client on their device or use Microsoft Edge/Google Chrome (which supports x265) to view content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unless you are transcoding videos, streaming audio or video is next to nothing. It barely registers as using any cpu and my watt meter is basically margin of error when it is in use. Energy use is not a concern.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you are in the Apple ecosystem, Infuse is a very slick client that can connect to Samba drives, Plex, JellyFin, and more. I downloaded it because the AppleTV JellyFin app had issues at the time with large media files. Just to test it out, I used a Samba connection and realized I really didn’t need JellyFin at all. Occasionally, I’ll power on the JellyFin vm to organize new media or for offline viewing but that’s about it

While it did save me some money on energy usage, I ended up spending that money saved on Infuse Pro Lifetime.