I think you might be thinking of beloved Nardwuar the Human Serviette, recent winner of the Order of Canada. Same friendly vibes.

I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.