The issue here isn't the audio transcoding, it's the subtitles leading to software video transcoding.
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Is that what the issue is. My NAS will be stuttering and saying it's at like 20% turn subtitles off and it's fine.
I worry a DIY Plex/NAS would be too power hungry, we use Plex a lot.
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Depends entirely on what format of subtitles your client can support.
If it can't support the format you've provided then it forces a transcode to "burn in" the subtitles.
"Fatter" clients like Android, Linux and Windows desktop clients and most Apple Devices can natively play e.g. PGS subtitles, but things like Roku and a lot of TV Clients won't necessarily (or have other restrictions e.g. they won't unless it's also receiving a certain audio or container format)
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If you want the best experience/least amount of hassle then a more expensive client like the NVIDIA Shield is still the way to go
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Got one of those, ended up in the drawer because it doesn't have all4 on it.
Pretty sure last time I played something I forced direct play and it still buffered with subtitles and it said it was direct playing both video and audio.
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I was listing them as two separate challenges - but it looks like the discussion has moved on and provided more detail here
Docker is generally a better bet as it's lighter on resources, allows multiple dockers to utilise GPU rather than just one VM pass through, but transcoding via either won't affect the majority of your stated usage (audio) as it's done via CPU. Visual quality, depends on which iGPU and GPU we are comparing, things have come a long way for each. The P2000 is based on the 10xx Pascal architecture, that's 5 generations old at this point, and the OS needs to support things like HDR tone mapping and that's basically linux. In all honesty, I wouldn't waste the time or money changing anything at this point, H265 is *finally* about to become a non beta option for transcodes, ironically just as the world is starting to move to AV1.
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Many thanks for the info, it's Linux Ubuntu virtual machine running under proxmox atm. Works absolutely fine, haven't looked at docker or CT tbh. Previously a vmware user, but after their license changes move to proxmox without any issues. Rebuilt some of the VMs and the others leveraged Veeam to do the back / restore / v2v process etc.
I'll hold for the moment, I was looking at quicksync based hardware options. I have a PowerEdge T340 server that houses the hardware I need atm with a NAS for storage via a NFS share and SMB.
For knowledge I was going to have a look at Hyper-V 2025, more as it could be the onsite hypervisor businesses move to. Do I need to change hypervisors for my workloads at home, no.
I'll hold for the moment, I was looking at quicksync based hardware options. I have a PowerEdge T340 server that houses the hardware I need atm with a NAS for storage via a NFS share and SMB.
For knowledge I was going to have a look at Hyper-V 2025, more as it could be the onsite hypervisor businesses move to. Do I need to change hypervisors for my workloads at home, no.
issue with 7700k is it won't support hardware encoding/decoding more recent formats either get a more recent intel chip or smash one of intels discrete gpus in there for some quicksync action otherwise it might be a little painful
While technically correct, you seem to have confused AV1 support with being important. The 7700K is Kaby Lake, it's a HD630 iGPU, it'll do H264/H265 hardware transcoding up to 10bit (HDR tone mapping - under the correct OS) almost as well as the UHD630 that was the default recommendation for years for basically any Plex server where power efficiency was a priority. The only remotely useful thing that it can't transcode in hardware is AV1, which only became possible with 11th gen onwards and ARC. To put it in context, it's only this month Plex will move transcoding to H265 out of BETA, at this rate AV1 support is many years off, and anyone wishing to use AV1 would likely have clients that support direct play anyway, so why is hardware transcoding AV1 important?
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um no theres still a bunch of HEVC that the 7th gen doesn't support and was not added until 10th gen or iris XE
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This is a good example of seeing vs understanding. You see some missing capabilities in a matrix, I understand that commercial video (DVD/BR/YT/whatever streaming platform you like) only master/provide commercial content in 4:2:0, so there is no need for anything to support hardware transcoding of 4:4:2 or 4:4:4 outside of gaming, which is not Plex transcoding. Now please stop telling people to upgrade a 7th gen CPU to transcode content that simply doesn't exist, it's just sillyum no theres still a bunch of HEVC that the 7th gen doesn't support and was not added until 10th gen or iris XE
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