• bitwolf@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I use a J5040-ITX ATM. I know it says Pentium but don’t take that for granted. This chip is really just a lower binned i3 throttled enough to be passively cooled.

    I run Plex as a docker-compose workload and bind mount /dev/dri which passes Intels quick sync accelerator into the container for Plex to use.

    This enabled hw encoding. I also make sure I can direct stream from all of my clients. This setup can handle a few 4k streams and several 1080p streams.

    I mainly use it hoard to losseless music and hard to find cartoons / movies.

    I have an upgrade to a Pi Cluster planned but I don’t recommend it unless you specifically want to run Pis.