hello,
I’m interested in setting up a jellyfin server that will only serve streams to TVs on my LAN. Files will be on an existing NAS. Usage will be low (probably just one stream at a time); cheap and reliable is the name of the game, and cheap includes power consumption. I am thinking of some kind of NUC but don’t know enough about jellyfin yet to decide on specs. Any recommendations for a specific NUC model or CPU/GPU? I assume I will be running linux - any distro recommendations?
If your clients don’t need transcoding then a Raspberry Pi 3 or higher is enough. That’s all I use and it is rock-solid with 3 simultaneous streams (possibly more but that’s all I’ve ever had a need for).
If your clients do need transcoding, personally I would recommend looking for a different client or using Tdarr to convert your media to a standard format that works without transcoding.