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Should I use dedicated hardware?
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I wouldn't buy any older than 7th gen Intel, you can find micro/usff boxes on ebay with an i5-7500T or similar for under $80 usually. One example is the Lenovo M710q Tiny. Power usage on those should sit around 10W idle, and they have solid quicksync support for media transcoding.
Overall just better than a Pi in every way, other than a little more power usage, and lack of GPIO for those kinds of projects.
Unfortunately, in my country prices are WAY higher for that kind of device, but I too think it's the right way!