Hey lemmings,
I have a headless server that works beautifully. B450 with 2700X and 32GB of micron 3200MHz RAM.
I am currently running Debian 12 Bookworm on it. I am at kernel 6.1, but in preparation for 6.2 or 6.3 being backlogged, I want to buy an Arc A380 for transcoding since they are only 150€ here. Software was fine for a single video stream, but I bought a new house and will have 4 camera streams running. Plus I want to dabble in AV1 transcoding for media or storage of my camera streams
Currently there is neither X nor Wayland installed since it is exclusively with SSH that I do all of my work on it. After I install the GPU, I was wondering if it is possible to not even install X or Wayland since I will literally never use a display on it?
Would I still be able to do Jellyfin and Frigate transcoding without an X server? If I have to get one, does it matter if I choose X or Wayland for hardware transcoding?
Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer
basically no, because all existing modern software requires either wayland and/or Xwayland(xorg)