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cm0002@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Mine is hosted on a NAS. So no, not nvidia.
cm0002@lemmy.world 10 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.