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Warning against using Raspberry Pis or other SBCs for hosting JF #655

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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ The supported and validated video [hardware acceleration (HWA)](https://trac.ffm

- **Raspberry Pi** Video4Linux2 (V4L2, Linux only)

:::caution

While hardware acceleration is supported on Raspberry Pi hardware, it is recommended that Jellyfin NOT be hosted on Raspberry Pis or other SBCs. Many hardware acceleration features are not supported and will fallback to software. In addition, they are generally too slow to provide a good experience when transcoding is needed. Please consider getting a more powerful system to host Jellyfin.
We recommend getting a system with an Intel 7th gen or above Core series CPU.

:::

## Full & Partial Acceleration

The transcoding pipeline usually has multiple stages, which can be simplified to:
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