I prefer to use the Rpi due to power consumption but I’m worried about RAM usage; I’m currently already using it for pihole, Nextcloud and a Discord bot, taking about 1GB of RAM most of the time. On hindsight I should’ve bought a 4gb or 8gb model at that time… I plan to use it for maximum 5 people, and probably up to two will be using it at the same time.
I thought the service was going to be assumed because of the community we are in. But it doesn’t matter now.
You were right, actually Jellyfin itself is very very lightweight…as long as I don’t do any transcoding. If I do then it starts getting sluggish. And I couldn’t get hardware acceleration to work, probably because of what the documentation mentions.
Last night, my movie harddrive appeared to be corrupted so I left it running all night with chkdsk on Windows. If that got fixed, next step would be to check if I don’t need any transcoding in the first place in the devices I use. If I do, then I will use the other PC.