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[Guide] Hardware Transcoding: The JDM way! QuickSync and NVENC

Intel QuickSync Intel’s QuickSync makes use of your Intel CPU’s onboard GPU (make sure it has one) to accelerate transcoding. Early on, QuickSync had a reputation for being relatively pointless because it was not very capable and the resulting quality was quite poor. However, Intel continues to improve QuickSync quite drastically with each generation. Typically, the quality and performance of QuickSync has more to do with the generation of CPU than it does with the model number of the CPU. For …

I was planning on building a box for Plex and looking for in depth info about hardware transcoding, this post proved to be the best resource. Haven’t gotten around to buying the parts yet and planning on doing it in January. The hardware prizes from this contest could help out with that.