I’ve never had jellyfin + infuse go down, and it’s been a lifesaver when the power’s up and Internet down.

But yeah; things with SLAs are probably better off not self-hosted unless you really enjoy midnight fixes.

ive had issues with it chewing up all available cpu when it encounters corrupted files or a codec it doesnt recognize

Ah, that explains it. I handbrake everything into something that needs no reencoding for infuse to consume.