When GPU hardware acceleration replaces CPU transcoding, processor usage drops significantly, allowing more concurrent streams and smoother playback. Even demanding 4K HDR content becomes manageable, ...

My homelab Debian server runs on an old PC, hosting containerized services via Docker on Portainer, including Jellyfin. The server didn't have a dedicated GPU, so Jellyfin relied entirely on CPU ...

This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...