Currently running all my docker compose containers on my gaming PC. 15 containers in total. Mostly *arr stack, plex, immich, home assistant, actual budget and jellyfin. Running on Mint.
Want to get these onto a dedicated pc. I have a mini with a I5 10-600, 32GB ram. I’ve played with it a little with jellyfin, on Debian and don’t think I was able to get quick sync enabled with my testing, and one transcode pretty much maxed out the CPU usage. To use this PC, I’d need to buy a 4 bay USB HDD enclosure.
So, basically I’m just wondering before I spend money and time if the hardware is even capable enough for my usage. 3 concurrent streams is probably the most it’d ever see, ideally with no more than 2 transcodes. Immich, home assistant etc are all pretty new and just in testing for now, but would only have 2 users total. Mostly using Plex, jellyfin is also in testing so it’ll be ready if plex enshitifies too much.
I run Jellyfin with hardware transcoding via QuickSync (through VAAPI) on a 10th-gen i3 NUC, 16gb RAM, and it seems to handle it comfortably. Your hardware should definitely be capable.
This is Proxmox with Jellyfin as native install in an LXC so it’s not exactly identical to your current setup, but what I found was that passing the device through is only half of it - the host also needs the Intel driver in place for QuickSync to actually work. Try running vainfo on the host to check, if it doesn’t list H.264/Hevc encode, the GPU block isn’t available yet and Jellyfin will fall back to software - this is probably what you’re seeing with the maxed out CPU.
After THAT, make sure Jellyfin has permission to use the passed-through device.
I was just going through this last week, migrating JF off my NAS, and it took some fiddling to get it working.