Currently, I use Debian on my server. I have an Intel Arc GPU that I use for transcoding, however hardware encoding doesn’t work. I am able to get a slight performance benefit from decoding, but encoding would be much better. I have an A750 in my desktop (not server), and was able to get hardware acceleration working, but only with openSUSE Tumbleweed with the stable kernel (6.9.4). While I would love to have encoding, (I am limited on upload speed and av1 encoding isn’t practical on the CPU for multiple streams), I doubt it would be stable using a rolling distro and non-standard kernel. Has anyone else tried anything like this? Are there any arc + jellyfin users out there who know any way to make this work, or any openSUSE self-hosters could vouch for its stability? I am willing to try almost any distro (except ubuntu) to make this work.
Edit: fixed. There was some firmware I needed to work on debian. I will link and such in a bit when I have time.
I believe that I’ve tried that. I currently use the backports kernel anyway.
I see. I recommended that because it’s kinda like rolling release. I haven’t used openSUSE as a server but I remember people who use from Reddit self-hosted.
You can also try Void Linux.