I solved this problem by having all of my media in a supported format of all of my devices so no transcoding is needed. My Pi 4 can transcode two 480p streams simultaneously or a single 1080p stream but can’t do any more than that. However it can stream at least 4 streams simultaneously a mix of 4k, 1080p and 480p. It suits my needs unless I’m transcoding 4k due to subtitles 😵. Hopefully transcoding won’t be required for subtitles forever… right? Right?
What’s the format of the videos? I’ve tried everything I could think of to rip and transcode a 3D bluray.
My experience is it’s really a lot of work and with the prevalence of letsencrypt, there is not a lot of automated setups for this use case (at least that I have been able to find). It is kind of a pain in the ass to run your own CA, especially if you plan to not use wildcard and to rotate certs often. If you use tailscale, they offer https certs with a subdomain given to you:
[server-name].[tailnet-name].ts.net
That’s honestly what I’m moving towards.
Mine is only accessible from VPN so I’m not worried.
Thanks for the write up. I am currently using a Roku TV with the Jellyfin client running on it. I’ll need to look into Kodi and sounds like I might need an AVR or set top box. It would be nice if these things (TVs, soundbars) were more open. Maybe we need an open source soundbar firmware, then I could permanently disable Alexa and maybe make use of it’s networking capabilities.
That’s what I had heard as well. Maybe this is a new feature request for the project developers.
Interesting. Can you tell me more about your setup? A Jellyfin server (does it need a plugin?) then TV is running Kodi client which connects to Jellyfin and your transcoding settings are configured on the Kodi client? Is that right or am I missing something?
So back to my origin question. Jellyfin supports transcoding so can it support device specific profiles where I can force it to transcode all audio to ac3 for specific decices?
Under my TV’s audio digital output format selection it says “select pass through to hear unmodified dolby or dts audio using ARC. If dolby or dts passthrough is not possible, you’ll hear stereo.” It lets me choose custom but can’t get it to use the AAC surround unless I use optical.
My TV must be doing the conversion because optical audio is surround sound but HDMI ARC is stereo and it sounds terrible because it must be passing through only a couple channels. Maybe the spec supports it but the soundbar only supports DTS/AC3 and maybe it’s just the TV combo that is not allowing it to work correctly. I was reading up on the HDMI ARC spec and it sounded like AAC was not supported until ARC 2?
Yea that looks pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Single node k3s is possible and can do what you’re asking but has some overhead (hence your acknowledgment of overkill). One thing i think it gets right and would help here is the reverse proxy service. It’s essentially a single entity with configuration of all of your endpoints in it. It’s managed programmatically so additions or changes are not needed to he done by hand. It sounds like you need a reverse proxy to terminate the TLS then ingress objects defined to route to individual containers/pods. If you try for multiple reverse proxies you will have a bad time managing all of that overhead. I strongly recommend going for a single reverse proxy setup unless you can automate the multiple proxies setup.
And here I am running a bare metal k3s cluster fully managed by custom ansible playbooks with my templatized custom manifests. I definitely learned a lot going that way. This project looks like it has just about everything covered except high availability or redundancy, but maybe I missed it in the readme. Good work but definitely not for me.
Check out Termux. It lets you install nearly any linux software on your Android device. Probably a good place to start to get your toes wet.
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That would be pretty dope. If you end up writing it up don’t forget about me 😁
Do you have a link to a tutorial on this? I’ve been thinking about adding my amd64 server with an nVidia GPU to my Raspberry Pi K3s cluster.
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My understanding is some parts have to be done sequentially even though the parts themselves are multithreaded, now the different parts can all be done in parallel.