Spooky Mulder

I second this. Never heard of it but looks great.

Playing files directly in the browser and avoiding the need for transcoding is exactly what the system I’ve built is designed around, so I get the appeal!

True.

When I migrated off of Jellyfin, I re-encoded everything up to that point directly from the Blu-ray rips wherever possible. Because I’d already started culling those for space, I did end up just doing another pass on the first round of encoding for a portion of the library. There’s some noticable degradation on those, and I’ll want to re-rip those at some point.

Fortunately, I’ve got my process pretty dialed in for ripping and I actually enjoy it, so if I ever have a quality issue, it’s not a huge ordeal to re-rip and encode.

I went with a GeForce RTX 4060. Cost was about $300.

Ahh, I like how you split Concert Films and Music Videos. I’ve been pigeon-holing my Short Films, Mini-Series, and TV Movies into just the two categories: Shows and Movies. Makes way more sense having separate categories.

There’s some relatively inexpensive NVIDIA cards now with AV1 hardware encoding. I’m on my third round of re-encoding my whole library (HEVC, then VP9, now AV1). For 1080p NTSC, I get about 13x speeds on NVENC AV1, whereas with VP9 I was CPU-bound at around 4x. Definitely worth the upgrade, in case you’re on the fence.