

Whether your video is 1080p isn’t the concern, since it’s the video codec that determines if your client device can play the file directly. If not, it may require Jellyfin to transcode it using software capability only (as you did not enable hardware acceleration).
For hardware acceleration, you should read the official documentation. Say, some Intel CPU supports Intel Quick Sync so you don’t necessarily need a GPU.

Thank you for saying that. I always wonder if veterans really need to know that much information at all times. As a hobbyist, I only care about when things don’t work. My homepage is just a bunch of icons. I could have put them in the browser as a bookmark but it’s just not convenient. Then I set up Dockhand to alert me when things go wrong. That’s it.