Merge pull request #655 from felix920506/Rpi-Warning

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@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ The supported and validated video [hardware acceleration (HWA)](https://trac.ffm
 
 - **Raspberry Pi** Video4Linux2 (V4L2, Linux only)
 
+:::caution
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+While hardware acceleration is supported on Raspberry Pi hardware, it is recommended that Jellyfin NOT be hosted on Raspberry Pis or other SBCs. Many hardware acceleration features are not supported and will fallback to software. In addition, they are generally too slow to provide a good experience when transcoding is needed. Please consider getting a more powerful system to host Jellyfin.
+We recommend getting a system with an Intel 7th gen or above Core series CPU.
+
+:::
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 ## Full & Partial Acceleration
 
 The transcoding pipeline usually has multiple stages, which can be simplified to: