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Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC
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Avoiding Plex for something like Jellyfin is a start.
Past that, it doesn't take a lot to run such a service unless it needs transcoding which is where it gets dicey for realtime streaming.
If you have a standard expected output you might get away with bulk stranscoding ahead of time and then run things on some little nuc or an old laptop.
Considering they’re asking for cost effective ways, and Jellyfin has notoriously poor resource management especially in the memory department, no.
Might have to spin up a JF instance to check, right now I'm using Emby that JF was forked from some while ago and don't see anything horrid. About 1GB memory for one that's been up and running for a good while.
There was nothing in the question about jellyfin.
I'm on the jellyfin side, but you people have to chill, this is becoming Ford vs Chevy in here.
It's not so much a question of one vs another. It was asked the most cost effective way to accomplish such.
Last I knew Plex required an ongoing subscription for some aspects that Jelly has for free, so that consideration is part of cost effectiveness.
Personally I have Emby simply out of inertia since I bought a lifetime licence before there was a Jellyfin spun off, but didn't propose that because it would be an unneeded cost.