rffmpeg

I tried to answer it about a year and half ago and that answer is still mostly correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743932 You can mix and match operating systems, macOS, Windows, Linux, you do not need sudo privileges. rffmpeg needs a shared file system which could be a huge pain to setup: https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg/blob/master/docs/S... ffmpeg-over-ip patches ffmpeg and only needs one port open for the server, then you just run the binary, no mounts needed at all.

How does this differ in performance from rffmpeg? https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

There is an existing solution in the community called rffmpeg[1] but that did not work for me. It seems too heavy weight for what I was trying to do. It requires access to sudo, global configuration files (/etc/) and most importantly, this, which is a deal-breaker for me: > Note that if hardware acceleration is configured in the calling application, the exact same hardware acceleration modes must be available on all configured hosts, and, for fallback to work, the local host as well, or the ffmpeg commands will fail. I wanted to mix and match windows and linux, and it was clear rffmpeg wasn't going to work for me. One plus rffmpeg does have is that it supports multiple target hosts, so it's useful if you want some load balancing action. Although you could do the same with ffmpeg-over-ip, just selecting the servers dynamically but rffmpeg

> Also, remote transcoding of videos seems like a huge win! Makes it so you won't need as beefy as a system to run PeerTube. You can technically do it if you're willing to hack around. Since it uses the ffmpeg binary you could technically replace it with rffmpeg[1], the setup isn't pretty but it's doable. I haven't done it myself but have seen reddit posts on the jellyfin community that it works pretty well once setup. [1] https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

I believe you could get a similar result using Jellyfin and rffmpeg [0]. From a quick glance it seems like it should work from ARM->x86 https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg