Hi,
I have a project idea for my homelab. It’s a plex/jellyfin alternative and I’m thinking about my stack, for now I was thinking about Go, Rust or Elixir.
With Go I need to call ffmpeg and ffprobe with exec.Command
With Rust there is ffmpeg-next
With Elixir and GenServer but now I just discovered the existence of Membrane 
The thing is, I don’t know Rust and Elixir 
(but I have time to learn, it’s a side project)
Basiclly the app need
- an API to show the media from a sqlite DB
- the db will be filled by scanning shared folder
- fetch the movie/tv show from TMDB (for example)
- scan the shared folder and use ffprobe to get media info (length, codec, etc)
- ffmpeg to generate thumbnail
- ffmpeg to transcode (if needed)
- ffmpeg to stream (HLS)
I’m wondering about Membrane CPU usage during transcodage because my goal is to have the app running on small machine (2vcpu min and 6 vcpu max will be great)
And I don’t know how to package an elixir app (.deb, .exe, binary) with an easy install like Plex for example.
I’d love to try with Elixir/Phoenix and Membrane but don’t know about CPU usage and I like strictly typed languages.
Thank you 
