but there are tons of times where I reload my feed and it errors or is empty.

Sounds like your server or your app is an issue.

A few years in and I haven’t seen that except for just straight up downtime (planned or otherwise).

Would be a fun name for a repo of ttrpg stuff, one pagers, etc

What about it is more complicated? The experience with qsv has always been easier IMO for anything transcode, and I (maybe mistakenly) thought it used ffmpeg for that under the hood?

FWIW, qsv does all my Jellyfin transcoding like an absolute champ, which is why I’m surprised and curious.