Published Oct 27, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT

Gaming has been Samarveer’s greatest passion, and the Literature graduate in him takes immense joy in dissecting games for their themes, messages, and impact. Samarveer holds a deep appreciation of gaming, and considers the platform to be the most immersive and impactful across all media. He can be found engaging with gaming communities online, always ready to debate the finer points of ray tracing or itching to write an 8-page collegiate thesis on any game that impacts him emotionally.

Jellyfin is pretty good at playing your media without much fuss, but things get considerably more complicated when it has to transcode a video on the fly. It can prove to be a ton of work for your humble home server to decode a 4K HDR movie, convert its audio, burn subtitles into the picture, and encode everything into a format your client can actually play.

Thankfully, Jellyfin supports several hardware acceleration methods that can take some of that workload off the processor.…