PLEX card

[qbhatti]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what might make a good PLEX card- I have a modest system (4650G/32gb ram) which runs my homeassistant + plex server, and i am keen to do something to help with transcoding.

 

[brakeinup]

This may help: here

 

[Armageus]

Why are you transcoding in the first place?

 

[Vertigo]

I use a Quadro P400. Works like a charm and fairly cheap.

 

[no_1_dave]

Use an Intel CPU instead, Quicksync does the transcoding so you don't even need a GPU

 

[Armageus]

Use an Intel CPU instead, Quicksync does the transcoding so you don't even need a GPU

Or avoid transcoding in the first place

 

[no_1_dave]

Or avoid transcoding in the first place

I don't transcode anything, but my parents have access to my plex server and they only have an old 720p TV and slow internet because "anything bigger is too much, this is fine. Our internet is fine, we're happy with it"

Personally, I re-encode everything to x265/EAC3 and OCR any foreign subtitles on my legally obtained and copyright free personal media collection

 

[balanceballs]

I can't be bothered to convert all my media, so just use intel quicksync. It's great.

 

[no_1_dave]

I can't be bothered to convert all my media, so just use intel quicksync. It's great.

You lose a lot of image quality when transcoding

 

[Vertigo]

Use an Intel CPU instead, Quicksync does the transcoding so you don't even need a GPU

My server runs on a Xeon which doesn't support it.

Or avoid transcoding in the first place

I don't transcode anything locally but do for remote users when necessary to keep within bandwidth limits.

 

[loftie]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what might make a good PLEX card- I have a modest system (4650G/32gb ram) which runs my homeassistant + plex server, and i am keen to do something to help with transcoding.

Just to confirm - you have a Plex Pass right? Hardware encoding is only available with a Plex Pass IIRC. There is a thread on the Plex forums about getting APUs to hardware transcode with some success.

Got HW Transcoding to work with libva/vaapi on Ryzen APU (Ryzen 7 4700U)

@hexeth I assume you addressed the issues mentioned right above with the artifacts apparently caused by Mesa or ffmpeg? the images from mauimauer I assume havent been updated because he didnt have time to fix that plex issue and we would rather run an older version where hw acceleration works...

forums.plex.tv

Edit: Or try Jellyfin as that looks like it can do hardware transcoding on an APU.

 

[balanceballs]

You lose a lot of image quality when transcoding

Not had anyone who uses my server complaining! I watch stuff on my 4k TV all the time and it looks ok, even though the source material is only ever 720p or 1080p.

 

[Jleo]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what might make a good PLEX card- I have a modest system (4650G/32gb ram) which runs my homeassistant + plex server, and i am keen to do something to help with transcoding.

The Nvidia GTX 1660 can be purchased <£200 used, its considered a mid-range gpu in the Plex gpu guide ​