You can check mini PCs based on Intel alder lake N100. Intel N100 is perfect because it have a low 6 watts TDP, 4 cores / 4 threads (all low energy cores) and Intel UHD GPU (24 CU) with H264/H265 hardware video encode and decode and AV1 hardware decode only (so no av1 encoding).
There is a lot of thiny models some with M2 ports and SATA. Some models are also fanless so no noise :) Price is from ~150$ (barebone) to 300$ with 16Go RAM and 1To SSD M2. I saw good prices on aliexpress for them.
You can check mini PCs based on Intel alder lake N100. Intel N100 is perfect because it have a low 6 watts TDP, 4 cores / 4 threads (all low energy cores) and Intel UHD GPU (24 CU) with H264/H265 hardware video encode and decode and AV1 hardware decode only (so no av1 encoding). There is a lot of thiny models some with M2 ports and SATA. Some models are also fanless so no noise :) Price is from ~150$ (barebone) to 300$ with 16Go RAM and 1To SSD M2. I saw good prices on aliexpress for them.