Be aware that doing it like this, the traffic from the VPS to your home will be unencrypted.

I would have, but this is all about the power consumption. Getting an old PC, I’m afraid to be at least around 100W…

Oh? This is weird, I have disabled transcoding on my rpi and I have some files that won’t play or the subtitles won’t load. I’m playing from my local network on an AndroidTV. I thought this was a file format issue and that transcoding would solve the issue