This is something that has been increasingly prevalent with my server, for the longest time I could torrent, have two people watching and everything’s fine, but lately, especially with specific shows, it will take upwards of a minute for a show to start.
I’ve looked into it and the culprit is ffmpeg most of the time, I assume this has something to do with the specific files not having transcoding “baked in” but I don’t know enough to know if that’s the case. Can anyone help me optimize my pipeline at all?
Mini PCs have more than enough oomph to handle what you’re doing. Almost my entire home lab runs on 7th/8th gen mini PCs, which includes Plex and Jellyfin (working on migrating everything over to JF). Plex only ever threw a fit when my wifi started getting crowded with wifi cameras and zigbee devices. I fiddled with the channels, removed one of my 2.4 SSIDs entirely, and now everything is happy again.