Jellyfin docs do mention the Intel ARC cards (both Alchemist and Battlemage) as supported so if you can find one cheap they'd definitely be a solid card for transcoding (and letting you use AV1 for even tinier files on disk)
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/intel/#arc-gpu-support
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