Hello
I currently have a 280x Radeon in my media server and had noticed that the streams from it are getting a bit slow so was wondering which is the best route to go down?
I have noticed Nvidia is the way to go down however was wondering if anyone knows if AMD could be a potential GPU? Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix
I have been using this for a reference however wanted to know what people are currently using?
I certainly would not use nividia, under the assumption that in a media centre your going to use kodi at some point, nividia whilst they work, dropped frames, lag and stutter in kodi.
The details on what emby supports appears to be here: MediaBrowser/Wiki
Assuming you're on windows It looks like it supports encoding hardware from all three brands but I couldn't see any mention of using the main GPU for encoding.
Unless you're transcoding, surely it doesn't matter. You don't even need a GPU in a media server. If you are transcoding, it would be better to try and eliminate that than throw resources at the server side of things.
Or perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what you mean by media server.
I have tried watching Deadpool and it needs to transcode from h264 to h.264 as shown however is being restricted. Is this a case of I need to get a new cpu for this? as that is what is taking so long for it to transcode and my gpu is actually 3%
'Software' is often a term used to mean that it's the CPU doing the work rather than the GPU or dedicated encoding hardware, and task manager showing 100% load on a high end CPU (i7-9700K?) would seem to confirm that.
The first thing I'd do is dig through the settings to find out why it's not using the available Quicksync or VCE/AMF encoding hardware. From the low frame rate for that CPU (even if it's 4K) I wonder if it's not using any decode hardware either.
I'm not familiar with emby so I can't help with where the information is in the app. Windows task manager should show whether the GPU's included encode/decode hardware is working though:
I know with plex you have to turn on hardware accelerator which utilises the gpu (I believe that’s only for paid sub) it could be the same with emby but not familiar with the programme.
Plex also would transcode 264 to 264 under certain circumstances, I think it was mainly to do with the audio? Tbh I don’t remember.
2-12-2019 03:38:35
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