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My first jellyfin setup (piefed.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by gigachad@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I really want to get into jellyfin streaming, but I am a noob and have not much knowledge about hardware and video tech, and I could need some help! Please apologize if some of my questions seem uninformed.

My plan is to store my DVDs on an external HDD, I already have some movies stored with makemkv.
I do not want to spend a lot of money, at least for now. Synology is out of question because of enshittification. But I don't have 300-500€ to spend on a mini PC, for a project I might abandon.
What I have is an old Raspberry Pi 3, where I could set up a Jellyfin server on.
From what I gathered, it will be slow AF, but I guess for trying out the technology it should be enough to start?
I want to stream to mobile devices, for example an Android phone or tablet, or my Hisense TV. I know already there is no Jellyfin app for the TV, but I could imagine setting up another pi as a client for it.
Now there is another problem: I do not really understand what transcoding is, or if any if my devices support the H265 codec making transcoding unnecessary.
Can you recommend me a low cost setup, let's say max. 150€? Would a Pi 4/5 work, or does it need to be a mini PC?

I am not really interested very much in 4k, but if it is possible, why not.

Bonus question: How easy would it be to setup remote streaming so my SO could watch with their android phone from home?

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[–] Emi@ani.social 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff either but I have my jellyfin setup on my main PC and store the movies/tvshows on external HDD. All I did was install the app(windows for now) and set the source folders and the basics(account password and such). Did not go into transcoding or any of the other stuff and besides some movie identification errors caused by wrong or similar names and subtitles with special characters I had no problems. Wanted to also try remote streaming but did not get much into it. But I'd be glad to help if I can.