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cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months agoshare a library full of x265 1080p movies and tell me how your transcoding is going.
Sounds like somebody missed the memo on hardware transcoding LMAO
I have a 200TB+ library full of 4K AND 1080p movies/shows, no issues transcoding here.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I have hardware transcoding. I also have enough friends that more than 2 or 3 may be trying to watch something at the same time. Good job assuming the simplest setup, though.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then something is wrong with your setup, HW transcoding should be able to handle 3 transcode streams of a HEVC 1080p video file easily. I’ve had peaks of 8-10 simultaneous transcoding streams without issue (going above 5 does require you to patch the Nvidia driver (if using Nvidia consumer GPUs))
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Mine is hosted on a NAS. So no, not nvidia.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well there’s your problem, it ain’t got no gas in it!
HW transcoding is more than just flipping the switch in the Plex dashboard.
For one, you need a GPU of some kind, even shitty or old ones like a 1060 will get you far
For two, it needs to be properly configured for PCIe pass through on Docker (if Plex is in a docker container)
For three, a NAS is like…second to last tier as far as Plex servers go (with a few exceptions) with the bottom tier being “repurposed old computer”. While there’s nothing wrong with that, you can’t make generalized statements like you did based on that kinda setup.