Does anyone run one of the above on a Pi 4 and can share their experience how good or bad they run?

If course, transcoding won’t be any good and OCR probably cannot run in parallel, but aside from that - is it okay?

Currently running everything on a mini ITX with a i5-6600 which handles this easily for my small use cases, but also draws 20-30W idling most of the day… I’m eyeing a Pi 4b with 8gb RAM but don’t want to spend the money and then realizing that it doesn’t run smooth enough

  • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I tinkered for years with numerous Raspberry Pies but got tired of it. Bought a second hand Dell ThinClient Wyse 5070 for like 70€, installed DietPi and its awesome.

  • mbp@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I tried paperless years ago on my 4B and it did not work well enough to be usable.

    Jellyfin was fine.

    I’d say getting an x86 think centre or equivalent will cut your idle in half and give you enough overhead to run paperless and jellyfin.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I run a 2019 Dell OptiPlex SFF desktop as my ESXi box - it idles under 20w with multiple Linux and Windows VM’s (4 are standard, besides the ad-hoc ones for testing stuff).

      Hard to beat the idle combined with performance when needed. Pi really doesn’t compare.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I run Jellyfin on a Banana Pi M4 Zero. It’s a little less capable than the Pi4 but runs JF just fine. Specs on this one are quad core 1.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC on Armbian.

    The media files are all on the 1 TB SD card while the Jellyfin data directory (especially the SQLite DB) are on the eMMC. This seems to work much better as the DB file kept getting corrupted on SD. Should also help the SD card from wearing out since it’s pretty much only reading data from it most of the time.

    As you guessed, transcoding is not going to work (JF is removing the v4l2 hardware support anyway), so I pre-transcode them to H264 + yuv420p in an mp4 container before moving them to the SD card. I also scale them down to 720p to fit more on there, but that’s because this is a travel server and isn’t my main media source.

    Can’t speak for Paperless though.