Best Media Server for Rock5b?

#1

Hello all,
I would like to install a Media-Server on the Rock5b that uses the hardware acceleration (transcoding h.264/h.265, etc.) of the SoC. I have installed Debian 11 and Jellyfin on a (fast) SD-card (290MB/s read, 260MB/s write). However, here the SoC already reaches its limits with ONE 4k stream (WITHOUT transcoding) and the video on the client is very jerky.

My question: What alternatives are there? Is Debian the right OS?
My intentions: A media server to stream videos and music to the local network and Internet.

Note: I think that no matter what software I use, the transcoding always happens via ffmpeg and here is the bottleneck. Or what do you think?

#2

Armbian (A small Linux for ARM boards) claims they have Kodi working with 3D acceleration: https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/

To enable kodi hardware decode you have to run kodi under gbm or wayland!

Does anyone have experience with this? And what does gbm or wayland mean?

#3

Plex server is the best media server that does a good job with transcoding

#4

yesterday I installed armbian on rock 5b (and on Orange pi5) and kodi works very satisfactorily, iptv works also movies. on rock 5b I followed these steps:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/24802-kodi-for-rk35xx-510-legacy-kernel/