I’m just transcoding them ahead of time for compatibility.
Some NAS (in remote locations) do not have transcoding capabilities.
They are great as simple file servers though.
Thanks for your input.
If anyone has already had a similar experience to what I’m thinking (migrating from an Intel 3rd generation to an 8th) I’d be curious to know what they thought the QSV differences where.
I’m mainly interested in H.264 capabilities for myself but still open to hear what other people are doing.
Anyone using Freenas to hold the media and have instructions on how to set up properly. I want to see how to set up the nfs share. Just recently got my hp s01 running plex.
Thanks. Finally got it working with some fooling around with dataset permissions in addition to setting up the nfs share. Movies showed up initially but plex can’t seem to see them. Also this morning can’t seem to access the mnted folder anymore?
Been running my PlexBox for a while now as initially recommended in the guide.
Just did a test and I don’t see (hw) mentionned anymore in Plex.
Is HW decode/encode now supported in unRAID Docker?
I’m thinking of having 1 server instead of a separate PlexBOX and NASKiller.
HW transcoding has been supported in dockerized Plex for a long time in Unraid. However, a dedicated QS box will perform better than an integrated server. There’s really no reason for you to condense.
Ah damn.
Totally misinterpreted that.
It was one of the reasons I built a separate Plex box.
Would you still recommend two separate boxes with the 12 threads chips these days?
Reading this guide was very interesting, but that brings me to my current situation:
I’m running plex in a docker (on Unraid) with nvidia support (a GTX1060). You make it sound like that’s not the best of choices as it only does partly hardware transcoding (right?)
So what is my best choice here, making a VM I guess. but what should I allocate to this VM? Running an Epyc 7282 with 128gb ram. I can allocate enough but yeh, ofc I don’t want to allocate all resources to it.
Added to this, I’m having issues with VC1 videos… is there a way/plugin for plex that auto-transcode those (put it in “optimized versions”)?
I was initially able to run 14 simultaneous streams on an Intel i5-9400 / Ubuntu 20.04. Curiously, I reached 18 streams if I minimized some browsers, then restored them. Not sure why this would be the case…
Has anyone tested the transcoding performance on the new i5-11400? Trying to decide on whether or not to grab the 11400 with UHD 730 or the 11500 with UHD 750. If the transcoding capabilities are marginal between the two, I’ll get the 11400.
I have pressed a Dell Optiplex 3060 micro (i5-8500T, 24GB memory) into Plex transcoding service.
I find that I need to interact with it for updates (Plex and system).
I would like to run it without a keyboard/mouse/monitor and administer it from my main system (Windows 10 desktop system). I do have a vga dummy plug for it.
Can someone point me in a the right direction to read up on it?
