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Listing looks like hdmi 1.4, which sucks for 4k out i believe. Also, does the n100 have hardware decoding for h265 and av1? If so, this is interesting.

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All Intel CPU's since 8th gen support Hardware h.265. I believe all 11th gen and newer CPU's support hardware AV1. Even the last mobile Celeron (6305) had hardware H265, AV1 and strangely AVX-512 support.

Huh? I thought av1 support was on Arc and starts on igpus with Meteorlake? And Rocketlake had avx-512 and Intel decided to disable/exclude it in the big little era cpus alderlake, raptorlake and its refresh.

Tiger Lake is the first one with AV1 decoding support. Arc and Meteor Lake add AV1 encoding support.

It does have H265 hardware encoding/decoding support. This actually makes N100 a perfect choice for running Plex/Jellyfin.

What is holding me back from getting N100 for Media Playback is mainly that there is only support for 2x SATA ports.

Of course you can just get some PCI board to help you with more disks, but I was hoping to remove that in terms of space.

I'm using a Dell Perc H310 in the PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot (which is actually only wired as x2). With just 4 SATA3 HDDs connected it works fantastically.

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