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Do the D series Xeons support Quick Sync? Doesn't seem like it, would be a deal killer for me.
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necrobobsledder posted:I know the CPU pricing on ARK put the lowest tier Xeon D 1700 CPU around only $130 for a unit and the next step up was about $300. I wouldn’t be surprised if these boards hit around $600 for entry level similar to the Xeon D 1500 series back in 2016. Less Fat Luke posted:Do the D series Xeons support Quick Sync? Doesn't seem like it, would be a deal killer for me. I know this isn't the case for everyone, but my HTPC isn't so underpowered as to require transcoding to happen on the server, and my eyes are too poo poo for me to watch stuff on my phone's screen. At any rate, I'd much rather listen to podcasts, audiobooks, or music when I'm on-the-go and use my eyes to look around or have them closed. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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Last time I deep dove on 4k and the newer container format pretty much the only device with all of the various licenses needed for direct play is the Nvidia Shield. Audio codecs, video codecs, and even having to apply subtitles ( I forget the type, but some need to be encoded into the video stream itself). Maybe this has changed and I'll admit I'm not particularly savvy around the different formats, containers, etc, but 4k was the main transcoding offender for me.
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Apr 15, 2022 18:38
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Yeah, they ain't gonna be cheap. Yeah I hear you, I share the library with my remote family though and transcoding gets a lot of use 
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Apr 15, 2022 18:40
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On-server transcoding was big for me when I had a narrow range of acceptable formats on a PS3 and I don't think I could ever go back. My Plex isn't even accessible outside the LAN.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:11
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90% of why I want a better CPU for Plex server purposes is because the Apple TV can be a pain for codec compatibility and also because I’d like to start converting more media of mine to AV1 (skipping HEVC even) which is not what Apple wants to support either.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:13
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my Apple TV 4K direct-plays everything I've tried
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withoutclass posted:Last time I deep dove on 4k and the newer container format pretty much the only device with all of the various licenses needed for direct play is the Nvidia Shield. Audio codecs, video codecs, and even having to apply subtitles ( I forget the type, but some need to be encoded into the video stream itself). Less Fat Luke posted:Yeah I hear you, I share the library with my remote family though and transcoding gets a lot of use It's a pity they don't support the AMD Video Coding Engine, as it's probably easier to get an AMD GPU that only takes up a single slot - it's been forever and a day since I've seen one from AMD. Alternatively, Intel Iris Xe is supposed to be coming out in the near-future, and if it's anything like their iGPU line, it'll be supported in via DRM in Linux and FreeBSD (in fact, Intel Xe already works in FreeBSD), and might even be available as a single-slot full-height daughterboard? EDIT: Maybe a Inno3D GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (1-Slot Edition) could work? It supports up to 14 transcode streams according to this - although availability may be hard since it was made in 2017. Shumagorath posted:On-server transcoding was big for me when I had a narrow range of acceptable formats on a PS3 and I don't think I could ever go back. My Plex isn't even accessible outside the LAN. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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Apr 15, 2022 19:21
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is there a plex/kodi box thread somewhere? i'd love to set up my old PC at my mum's house as a super simple media server, since that's where we tend to consume content, but i'd also like to be able to connect to it remotely.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:23
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CoolCab posted:is there a plex/kodi box thread somewhere? i'd love to set up my old PC at my mum's house as a super simple media server, since that's where we tend to consume content, but i'd also like to be able to connect to it remotely.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:26
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:There's both a Plex thread and a HTPC thread over in IYG. lol i always forget that subforum exists ta! 
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Less Fat Luke posted:Do the D series Xeons support Quick Sync? Doesn't seem like it, would be a deal killer for me.
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Crime on a Dime posted:my Apple TV 4K direct-plays everything I've tried Same. I can even direct stream Dolby Vision and HDR10 files from my low power QNAP. No transcode required. Over WiFi even.
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I dunno what's happened given I've had no less than 10 files in the past few months that went into transcoding mode on my Apple TV 4K and I'm not about to agonize over what's going on either because it's not worth it for me. Maybe it's because I've disabled HDR or DV on my Apple TV or my tendency to use subtitles on everything I watch. Or maybe it's because I need to upgrade my HDMI cables to higher bandwidth ones, but I'd rather upgrade my hardware at this point than waste hours fiddling with files and settings to try to not need to transcode.CopperHound posted:i3 superiority here for ecc and quick sync.
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necrobobsledder posted:If you're fine with an i3 from like 3 generations ago now given that the last i3 I saw that supported ECC was the 9th generation Core series. My i3-4130 is a champ but just not going to cut it for the next decade. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Intel NUC7CJYH The Asus PN41 is $169, fanless and uses an Intel N4500. There is another variant with a 4 core chip, but I read that it gets too hot.
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Comatoast posted:The Asus PN41 is $169, fanless and uses an Intel N4500. There is another variant with a 4 core chip, but I read that it gets too hot. Is it the N5100 that gets too hot? If not, I have bit of maths to work out as that one is barebones but cheaper, while the N4500 comes with stuff but is more expensive. As for number of cores; kodi uses ~3% on FreeBSD when idle and ~20% when doing VAAPI playback - and that's on a i5-3427U which is from 2012. More to the point, here's top: pre:last pid: 25674; load averages: 0.53, 0.64, 0.63 up 11+12:58:10 23:07:13
39 processes: 1 running, 38 sleeping
CPU 0: 2.6% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.1% interrupt, 96.5% idle
CPU 1: 3.1% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 95.7% idle
CPU 2: 2.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.5% interrupt, 96.4% idle
CPU 3: 2.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 96.9% idle
Mem: 114M Active, 418M Inact, 4525M Wired, 2307M Free
ARC: 2469M Total, 1275M MFU, 543M MRU, 32K Anon, 36M Header, 615M Other
1353M Compressed, 3399M Uncompressed, 2.51:1 Ratio
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1110 debdrup 54 22 0 621M 461M uwait 1 32.8H 17.04% kodi.bin
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CoolCab posted:is there a plex/kodi box thread somewhere? i'd love to set up my old PC at my mum's house as a super simple media server, since that's where we tend to consume content, but i'd also like to be able to connect to it remotely. There is also an old Kodi thread but it doesn't see much action anymore. Most people just run Kodi on an Nvidia shield and probably half of us just use Kodi as a front end to Plex or Emby.
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necrobobsledder posted:...subtitles on everything I watch. It's almost definitely this, image based subtitles will force a transcode. There was a good effortpost in the Plex thread a few weeks back that broke it all down. I know srt are fine, but I think it's like vobsub and pgs maybe that transcode.
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If you watch this Amazon link to PN41 w/ N4500 you'll see that occasionally Amazon has it for msrp of $169 and occasionally Amazon Warehouse has returned/used units in the $130 range. You can track amazon listings and get email alerts with Keepa or CamelCamelCamel. I haven't found an excuse to get a PN41 as I'm currently stocking up on refurbished, $130 HP-s01-pf1013w off ebay. Those have G5900 Intel chips but also are not at all quiet without replacing the cpu & power supply fans. Some time ago I came across a reddit post which stated that the PN41, N5100 4-core variant produces more heat and thus throttles more readily than the 2-core. Comatoast fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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Comatoast posted:If you watch this Amazon link to PN41 w/ N4500 you'll see that occasionally Amazon has it for msrp of $169 and occasionally Amazon Warehouse has returned/used units in the $130 range. I haven't found an excuse to get one, but I get emails every time one reaches the <$130 price. I use Keepa rather than CamelCamelCamel because it has a nice browser plugin. Do you remember what kind of a system load was resulting in the N5100 overheating - was it idle, 25% CPU load, going full-tilt at 100%? I refuse to visit reddit, because I absolutely loathe the site design and the threaded comments make everything into an echo chamber - so if you don't remember that's alright, I guess I'll just have to wing it.
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I spent an hour today worrying about why some drives wouldn't spin up when I moved them from my old server to new. Forgot about the 3.3V thing on shucked drives. 
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This is heresay, but what I recall reading is that it reached 80C and then throttles down to roughly 1GHz.
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Comatoast posted:This is heresay, but what I recall reading is that it reached 80C and then throttles down to roughly 1GHz. I don't imagine that a CPU whose single-threaded performance is within 1% of the one I currently have will get higher CPU load, though - so I'm looking at about 20% load, which I can't imagine would cause it to reach 80C and throttle.
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Enos Cabell posted:It's almost definitely this, image based subtitles will force a transcode. There was a good effortpost in the Plex thread a few weeks back that broke it all down. I know srt are fine, but I think it's like vobsub and pgs maybe that transcode. ah, forgot about this. what is the advantage of non .srt subs?
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Crime on a Dime posted:ah, forgot about this. what is the advantage of non .srt subs?
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Crime on a Dime posted:ah, forgot about this. what is the advantage of non .srt subs? you ripped a bunch of DVDs 15 years ago and threw the vobs directly into a mkv file, because OCRing & correcting them takes time and who could imagine that one day you'd be watching movies on your phone CopperHound posted:It can be helpful for doing stuff like putting translations of signs on the sign instead of mixing it up with the dialogue. modern text subs can do all that poo poo, assuming the player supports rear end
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NAS/Storage Megathread: Does your player support rear end?
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withoutclass posted:NAS/Storage Megathread: Does your player support rear end?
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okay having done a little research I'm interested in using FreeNAS as a standalone headless server with the Plex plugin installed. this will be free, and I think work with my available parts. can you plug a USB HDD into a headless FreeNAS server and have it access the files?
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CoolCab posted:okay having done a little research I'm interested in using FreeNAS as a standalone headless server with the Plex plugin installed. this will be free, and I think work with my available parts. Sure you can plug a USB HDD in, but the question is whether you want to; USB has the feature of being able to unplug very easily, but if you put ZFS on top of USB and the disk then goes away, ZFS will need a bit of maintenance before it can cleanly work again, because you're not supposed to pull entire pools worth of disks at a single time; all of this is a long way of saying that you'll probably become very familiar with zpool-reopen(8), zpool-online(8), and zpool-clear(8).
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Thwomp posted:Same. I can even direct stream Dolby Vision and HDR10 files from my low power QNAP. No transcode required. Over WiFi even.
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Turns out sleeping on it was the right decision, because I found the N4500 for a mere 1248DKK (about 180USD) and some very cheap memory.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Yeah I hear you, I share the library with my remote family though and transcoding gets a lot of use If stupid Plex would just let you set default quality profiles for remote users, that would solve 99% of my pains.
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Moey posted:If stupid Plex would just let you set default quality profiles for remote users, that would solve 99% of my pains.
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Less Fat Luke posted:I use Jellyfin which allows you to have per-user bandwidth settings, it's worked well so far. I just want to force original quality for the default (unless an transcode is absolutely required).
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Sorry if this is a silly question, but what are you using on the NAS itself and on the Apple TV to do this? I'm not a fan of Plex so I'd pick up an Apple TV if I could just point its media player at an SMB share on my QNAP. So for the NAS, I’ve got the native QNAP Plex server application installed on my TS-251. No special firmware. Just gave it 8 GB of ram from whatever it came with. It’s connected to my router via Ethernet. The router is pretty new and supports all that MIMO and beam forming stuff. I’ve got the latest AppleTV 4K model connected via WiFi on a 5GHz channel. I’m using the native Plex app on the AppleTV. If it still matters, I’ve got Plex Pass on my Plex account.
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I'm looking to give my FreeNAS-11.2-U8 install some love. I have 5 6TB drives in a RAID-Z2. Just making sure that if I want to upgrade I need to buy 5 <newsize> drives and would have to power down and replace the drives one by one 5 times to get the new size? The case I have is not a hot-swap thing but I'm open to switching that all at once if it would be easier. edit: Supermicro Xeon D-1541 mobo with a Fractal 804 case.
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