BelgianNoise

Yep, just tried that yesterday. Results looked promising, doesn't play through the browser tho. It flat out jsut errors. def looking like the best option atm. Edit: if luck is on my side i might be getting an ITX 3200G system for real cheap soon, that would solve the whole thing. I might have written it down really unreadable, my bad. But I am not sure why you are adding NAS drives to my desktops power consumption. Also your trail of thought seems to assume that the main use of my desktop is encoding and me using the pc is the "free" power. But its the other way around, when I am using the pc anyways, the ~150W it is using anyway counts towards me gaming, browsing or whatever.

I have looked into HBBatchBeast but it seemed rather rough, home projecty and unmaintained. Def gonna check out the other ones, thanks a lot.

3900X - GTX 1070 - some MSI X570 mobo with wifi - 4 x 8 GB - Corsair H150i - 2 x M.2 - 2 x HDD - 15 W worth of stupid RGB I am so down to use GPU encoding but I just can't get the same video quality with a comparable bitrate to the way I encode now. Could you link me some info about that ? my bitrates right now for reference: 720p = 600 kbps | 1080p = 1200kbps. (I use avg bitrate + 2 pass and not RF values) From what I read online this is on the low side but I found it works for me and it was comparable to most YIFY x265 releases.

I've been encoding on AMD now for years so not sure what QuickSync does exactly. Does it speed up the normal x265 encode ? Or does it also just encode differently leading to some devices not being able to play it without a re encode or transcode ?

Looking at the numbers this way makes no sense at all. My NAS' harddrives are gonna be running 8hr per day anyway and there is days I will only use my desktop for 1 hour, which would make me leave it running without actively using it. Meaning that these encodes are responsible for the whole 240W cause I would otherwise just put my desktop in sleep.

From what I know not many devices can handle AV1 so Plex would still need to transcode. Most people watch through a browser. I tried encoding useing Nvidia NVENC but that did not yield great results unless I increased the bitrate by quite a lot.

This whole power consumption thing is mainly because I want it to not waste power while idle. Is there a nice solution so that I can just wake the pc easily ? Can I make it wake up in intervals so it can check for new files to encode and just go to sleep if there isn't any new files ?

I am def gonna have to look further into this. Single core performance on 11th gen seems to be comparable with the 4600G but it looks like it uses just as much power under load. (looked at the 11600H specifically cause this was the only one in the same price range)

Great idea! These mini PCs are sadly not that popular over here and the used marked is mainly intel 4th or 6th gen CPUs which is not really worth it performance wise imo. (These are around €200). Looked a bit further into 8th gen too, single core performance leaves a lot to be desired.

I think the best solution would be to have an i3 13100T (or 12100T, but the T is important) with an M.2 runnin Linux. Sadly this adds up to over € 400 wich is more then I wish to spend on it. Edit: a machine with a 4600G would only be about €300, but it would consume more power and have less performance if I am reading the numbers correctly online.

I host a Plex media server on a QNAP NAS. Over the past 3 years my library has become bigger and bigger and cost of storage is getting rather high. So I recently switched from x264 to x265 encoding. Encoding times are now over 60min for a 720p video of 60min. I am trying to find the most power efficient solution to encode my media. Here is a list of the devices I own and their restive power usage and how long it takes them to encode: Desktop: Ryzen 9 3900X I only list CPU cause I only do software encodes because the goal is to not have Plex transcode on the fly Idle: 165 W during encode: 240 W encoding time: 70min total power while not in use by me: ~280 Wh total power while in use by me: ~90 Wh NAS: Celeron N5105 - 4-core - 2 GHz cpu specs (limited to 50% CPU) idle: 18 W idle with active drives: 42 W during encode: 47.5 W encoding time: 720min = 12 hours total power while not in use (drives would be inactive): 480 Wh total power while is use (drives active because other processes): 66 Wh Laptop: i7 7700HQ idle: 14 W during encode: 75 W encoding time: 240min = 4 hours total power: 300 Wh Looking at these number I concluded that encoding on my desktop while I am using it is the most efficient. Using my weak NAS could technically be more efficient but since there are periods that the drives shouldn't have to be active otherwise this would average out higher then my desktop. My ultimate goal is to have a folder I can just copy video into and the server to encode it automatically. I found that this is baked in in this docker image 'jlesage/handbrake' but docker on WSL 2 refuses to use a lot of CPU so it limits itself for a reason I could not figure out over the past days. So I need help with: What is the most power efficient and suitable hardware for this ? I am willing to pick up some used components and I dont want the encode to take 12 hours per video haha. This has become more about learning about power usage and less about saving money. (on electricity) I have 2 Pi 3B's and could maybe get one or two more for very cheap. Would turning them into a cluster or combined PC work for this ? I am finding very few information on this on the internet, most of the blogs / videos are about running multiple containers in a kubernetes cluster which would def not fit this use case. (also don't think that Handbrake/ffmpeg runs amazingly on ARM) Are there any encoding settings I could use that significantly improve my encode times ? I kinda don't want to increase my bitrate but I amopen to hear your suggested settings with explanations and possibly also the exported handwbrake preset so I can import and try using it. Edit: why tf is my idle power usage to high on my desktop ? Sometimes I have a huge queue of encodes and I have to leave my PC on during the night and/or work which greatly increases the cost. I would also like to move this workload of of my desktop so I don't need to go crazy on my CPU anymore when i buy a new PC. (I understand that Handbrake does not use the 12 cores but I wanted to be able to also game and stuff on my PC while encoding) Thanks in advance for the help.

aight ty, have a good one

alright the ports being (in)active is a good explanation. Is there a way to keep the ports active? or is that setting baked into the monitor ?

When i turn off M2 everything stays normal. when i then turn off M1 it will also put everything on M2 even tho its off. so that doesnt add up. i also used a 2nd monitor on my laptop and when i turned of that monitor is wouldnt just smack everything on my laptop screen.

GPU: MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X (Drivers updated yesterday) Monitor 1: MSI Optix MAG27C => will refer to as M1 Monitor 2: Dell P2719H => will refer to as M2 Here is the problem: When i turn off M1 all my windows opened on M1 will move to M2. When i turn it back on, ALL windows (also the ones that were originally on M2) jump to M1. It has been like this for like 2 years and its kind of driving me nuts. I did some simple detective work and found out that when i turn off M1, it didnt show up in device manager anymore. Turning off M2 will not remove it from that list. I tried googleing ofc, most frequent answer is "update your drivers". Nothing there to fix. any help is welcome!