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I recently built my own server and here are how the server is currently setup. Proxmox is the hypervisor. Unraid is running as a VM under Proxmox. Windows 11 runs as a VM under Proxmox, with Plex and other games installed. I did passthrough a 4060ti (its the only one that can fit into my case so please don't roast me for my choice) to the windows 11 VM hoping plex will use it for transcoding. I found that plex is able to transcode if I watch the content on the windows 11 VM but cannot transcode if I am watching from another machine. At first I thought it was because I did not check the primary GPU box in the PCI tab but it still does not work after I enabled it. My guess is the windows 11 network is used up receiving video data from the unraid VM through Proxmox networking. Therefore chocking plex's ability to send data out to the internet. I am also thinking about getting another ethernet to USB adapter and passing that into the Windows 11 VM, but I am unsure if this is the actual issue. Are there any other things I should check? I set everything up following this article. . -
I have a NAS in the jonsbo N1 case. So 5 HDD slots, which was fine because I had a pci card with 2 more sata ports (moba only has 4). But now I'm running jellyfin server too and want to do transcoding, and want to make it hardware accelerated if I can. I tried sata expansion cards in the m.2 and wifi chip slots but they don't recognize/allow it for whatever reason. So now I'm at a choice, I can loose 1 4T HDD but get a slim GPU. Or I can keep the future storage and try the iGPU. I'm not currently using all that much storage space but I do expect it to fill up eventually. So the question is will the iGPU be sufficient? MOBA - A520I AC CPU - AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz GPU - YESTON GeForce GTX 1650 (prospective)
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I'm currently running a p2000 in my server. I have around 5-10 streams going during peak times and it seems to buffer or not want to go sometimes. Here is a link of my build currently and I was thinking about swapping the p2000 out for another card like an Intel arc for Av1. Before anyone ask I have plexpass using 16 cores. -
Hello, this is my first post, I would like to get help in a built used for Storage/NAS/Transcoding Media files: CPU: Threadripper PRO 5995WX Motherboard: Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II RAM: 8x32GB 3200 DDR4 GPU: 2xRTX4090 OS: Linux OS NVMe: 2x2TB (Maybe Samsung 980PRO not sure yet) to be in Raid1 for redundancy. Media Pool Drives: 100TB (10x10TB HDD enterprise for NAS level) to be configured in Raid 5 for data protection. Extra NVMe or SATA SSD: 2x1TB to be used as cache acceleration (read/write) for all the HDD above. Extra SATA SSD: 2x1TB to be used as cache for general purpose/temp workflow (not associated with any other storage - free use storage). Case: I've found a rackmount case that is good for the build and can host all of the mentioned drives. Network: I will be adding network card maybe Broadcom with 2x10Gb/s ethernet ports. Questions: 1- What kind of Raid/Storage controller would be good for this build? Single Controller or multiple ones? 2- Based on the controller, how do I connect the storage? buy a disk shelf? what is a good choice of that? 3- how do I connect that storage shelf to the server? I am asking because I've read that it is not a good idea to run raid on the motherboard for critical workflow, plus the motherboard does not has enough ports to support all the media. Plus, I would like to maintain the option of future expandability for the storage. -
Hi all. I recently upgraded my Unraid server with a 2080 super for Plex transcoding, now when I play a movie from my Plex library the GPU shows 1 process but it looks like the CPU doing all the work (abut 60-70% use), the results is when transcoding the movie pauses with a prompt that the server isn’t powerful enough to play that file. What I’m I missing?
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I have a parts list for a DIY NAS ,and I still haven't decided on an OS yet. The uses have changed since my last NAS post. The NAS will be a media server using Plex, editing and storing photos, security camera recording is no longer a requirement (we got a stand alone solution for surveillance), backup scheduling, we plan on letting visitors peruse photos and do their own photo editing on the server so permission granularity is a must, and will be on 24/7. Here's the hardware I will be using which is from an old gaming PC: CPU: Intel Core I7 3930K Mobo: Rampage IV Formula PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid RS-850-SPHA-D3 850W Video card: Geforce GTX 560 Ti? (To help with transcoding...I hope but may be too old? Would definitely like feedback on this!) 1 SSD for metadata for making perusing media on Plex responsive. 32 GB of non ECC ram (haven't researched if Mobo can take ECC memory yet) At least 2 SSDs for cache drives in raid 1 to ensure that data is written on spinning rust without data degradation (to help since there's no ECC memory, I know it won't replace ECC memory, but to my understanding will help mitigate damage to data). Planning on a minimum of 15 TB of Iron Wolf (maybe Pro?) of spinning rust due to size of media library. I chose Iron Wolf to avoid the WD SMR debacle. I want to be able to easily add drives when needs change. I would prefer to use ZFS, since BTRFS is still in its infancy (or so a lot of people claim). I do know that some OSs have plugins that can use that non-natively. I still haven't been able to make a choice because I only see positives about specific OSs by people who love their OS, but don't discuss drawbacks. Nothing is clear and concise without bias. I would love to know the drawbacks for each OS so I know beforehand what kind of struggles I may be facing. Currently the front runners seem to be TrueNAS, UnRaid, Open Media Vault, and Rockstar.
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Besides the more proper UI, I have no clue why people use plex instead of watching movies from an SMB share. I have searched and couldn't find an answer. Streaming videos from my server to my phone with SMB and VLC mobile works just fine. And isn't plex gpu intensive? So I ask. Why? -
rocking a 15 3300, with a intel desktop board, DH61CR, 4 gigs ddr 1333, and win 10 32 bit. I use this as a plex server, wherin I need only 1/2 transcoded streams, mostly without any transcoding at all, unless playing HEVC. This setup is too old for me to daily drive, I do got another computer with plex client on the same network. Usually the new setup doesn't need transcoding, direct play works properly on that, even with 4k HEVC. Now the problem is, this CPU is rated for turbo boost upto( I think )3.3 GHz. . While playing transcoded streams, the CPU barely runs at 2 GHz, mostly close to 1.5GHz. Task manager shows usage at less than 70%. Thing is running on integrated graphics mind you. It used to run at full throttle awhile back. Idk what changed, it suddenly starts having these problems. I observed 2.9 GHz clocks on a regular basis. (before these problems).
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I came across these: https://www.kontron.com/en/products/symkloud-ms2920/p151229 https://www.kontron.com/en/products/msp8050-modular-server/p159930 I wonder these can serve as ingest/transcoding servers for actual video workflows. I don't think anyone here uses Kontrons do they?
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Budget (including currency): $1000 (100,000 INR due to taxes) Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex 4k Transcoding not more than 1 stream at a time and mostly watching movies in house. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Currently I have 1 SSD (120GB for boot) and 7 HDDs (25-30TB of storage almost all in use) and I intend to keep all of those, I am using them as mass storage and would use them as Plex libraries in future as well. My computer is connected to my primary Movie watching display (Samsung 4K LED 65") I want something that is powerful enough to to transcode movies to so that when my home theater (same house but different floor) is complete I can shift the PC there but still be able to enjoy movies in full quality on my TV. Any suggestions are appreciated, LMK if it is possible to stream movies from PC to Android TV without transcoding (in 4K). Might never use the machine for gaming so that is not a focus point.
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I have a spare AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 2GB gpu. I am maybe interested in making a transcoding server for plex. Does anyone know if this GPU handle plex transcoding? Can it handle 1x stream of 4k hdr > 1080p sdr transcoding with tonemapping? Apparently, this GPU is comparable with an Nvidia P400 2GB gpu. https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/radeon-pro-wx-2100 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-wx-2100.c2979 https://www.amazon.ca/AMD-Radeon-2100-GDDR5-2XMDP/dp/B073CK9MLR -
Hello just wondered if anyone can advise / help me in regards to TDARR. I have a e5-2699v3 that I have tried to use for transcoding video which is done from the gpu. Titan XP. Obviously like everyone I got it working and didn't notice that it's actually running all 36 threads at 100% at idle. I might be mistaken but that doesn't appear correct. The cpu is having no issues but clearly I am not happy running 100% 100% of the time as I can't use it for other tasks. In comparison I got an old i7 3770 running proxmox with loads of stuff on it 24/7 and the cpu usage is none existent when it's idle. Yet all the services run totally fine. I don't get how TDARR works and it's actually a little hard to Google the issues and no Facebook groups are about for this. Can anyone shed any light on this on why or how to stop it chewing 36 threads to 100% or is it just a badly designed program? As I was hoping to move the server part to proxmox lxc. And use the Xeon as the node for the cpu / gpu. I been using a .bat ffmpeg script up to now and it's perfect I am just trying to tidy up how I transcode all my footage. Many thanks for any advice that can be given.
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I have been using a Intel Pentium E2160 for my NAS, the issue is that it cannot transcode h.265 video. I have been thinking of adding a gtx 1650 for hardware transcoding. I wanted to know if my CPU will bottle neck my GPU or not ? P.S. - I will be having only one stream running at a timr
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I have a media server going with a 8500T and it's transcoding performance through QuickSync is good but not amazing, prices for i7-9700 (non K) machines are getting pretty cheap but on paper it's using the exact same Intel UHD 630 GPU with a slightly higher turbo frequency (1100MHz vs 1200MHz). I can't really look at gaming benchmarks to compare because you can't necessarily correlate gaming performance and transcoding performance but even then I can't find any direct comparisons between the UHD 630 in the 8500T and 9700. Any pure gaming benchmarks also include the extra cores of the 9700 and the generational improvements, it's difficult to single out the IGP alone. I tried looking for some QuickSync benchmarks but no luck there either. Is it safe to assume they're pretty much equal, in terms of QuickSync at least, despite the nearly 2x TDP budget of the 9700 over the 8500T? If not is there some way to quantify the difference? Thanks. -
Hi All, Rather new to Plex and I've built up a media library of H.264 and H.265 content and need some assistance with Hardware Transcoding. I don't have a dedicated Plex Server set up at the moment and likely won't for a few months so it's running off my gaming desktop. Is it possible to force Plex to transcode content using the Intel iGPU when I have another Graphics card connected? I know the easiest solution would be to force Direct Play only but this isn't an option for all my Client devices. I have an i7 8700k, the Intel HD 630 is enabled within BIOS. I don't see an option unfortunately to select which GPU should be used when transcoding. Is it possible to have PLEX use the Intel iGPU for transcoding while allowing my 2070 Super to be used for games ect? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello LTT community! Over two years ago I built a NAS out of the parts of my first ever custom built PC and a Thermaltake Core V21 case and configured it with OMV. I also installed PLEX on it, but I am in no way up-to-date in the NAS space. Specs are as follows: CPU: AMD A10 5800K Mobo: MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 RAM: 8GB Kingstom HyperX Black 1866MHz (2x4GB) PSU: Seasonic S12 III 500W 80+Bronze SSD: Sandisk 240GB (OS) HDDs: 2 2TB WD REDs I have always had issues with PLEX due to some incompatible media files with my ROKU Ultra because this current build isn't able to do any sort of hardware trans-coding. I've thought about putting in a second-hand nVidia GPU to handle that, but I've also thought about just selling the entire build minus the HDDs for about $100 that I can put towards a much smaller enclosure for saving space in my tiny room (as well as not having to clean it out every month!). I've kept my eye on a Synology DS218+ but there could be better alternatives out there. PLEX will be the most utilized feature because the files I keep in my NAS are mainly offline installers and work files. So I come to you asking for recommendations. What enclosure do you fine people recommend I get? It has to be small and it has to handle PLEX 1080p trans-coding deccently. If the price is at or below $350 US, even better! Thanks in advance! -
Hello, can someone recommend workstation build using 2nd hand ebay parts (UK). Budget around £250 for complete build. Requirement - Tower/desktop pc workstation will be installed in a spare bedroom. - Project - Transcode h.264 5 streams. Thank you. -
Hello Guys and Girls, I would like to ask your advice. Let me describe my idea: - I would like to build a PC for Plex server with transcoding. I already have a NAS, so I don't need those functionalities. This PC is purely for media storage and what's important for me is to be able to do transcoding. The maximum number of devices connected to this Plex server will be 3 and from this 3, maximum 2 will need transcoding. The source material I will write in 1080p and from this 2 devices I expect, 1 will need 720p transcoding and the other one 1080p in some lower quality than the original. My idea is to use the following CPU: Intel Celeron G3900 I will add 8 Gbyte DDR4 RAM and a MiniATX board (probably MSI). I already found a nice case and I have a spare PSU which I can utilize and a 2 Tbyte HDD as well. My target is to keep the costs as low as possible, with the above specs and the already available HDD and PSU, I need to buy parts only for around 230 USD. Still a bit costly, but much less than a transcoding capable NAS (starts around 350-400 USD at least, w/o HDD). I'm planning to install FreeNAS w Plex Server and nothing else. My only concern is the CPU. Based on the guideline on Plex support page, the following needed for transcoding: 1080p/10Mbps: 2000 PassMark 720p/4Mbps: 1500 PassMark The G3900 is 3483 PassMark. If both 2 devices are playing and transcoding, it's a bit on the edge. My reason to Choose Skylake architecture is, to have an upgrade path and later I can use this PC as a secondary Gaming Rig for light gaming. Of course, then I will upgrade the CPU to something much stronger, but that's not in scope for now. Do you have any advice or experience with the G3900? Is it capable for the transcoding as I imagine? Your input is appreciated. Thank you. MarvinBOT
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Hi, After the recent Plex Media Server update I've been experiencing playback issues related to transcoding on Android App, TV and web browser. When a video requires to be trans coded it only loads the first 2 seconds and shows the following error message " The server isn't powerful enough to transcode the file, try playing the original file for smooth playback ". I've also notice when watching a trans coded stream my CPU usage doesn't move from 0-20% to 80-100%. So its like not even attempting to transcode. I'm running Plex media server version: 1.9.4.4325 CPU:i7 4790k Windows 10 64bit Any help on how to fix this would be great. Cheers.
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Hey guys, Story on why I chose a 1080P TV with HDR instead of a 4K One : I want to experience HDR content on the 1080P TV with HDR10 support, But since most HDR content is also 4K, If I play a 4K Blu Ray Video with a 4K video player but connect it to a 1080P TV. Will it play ? 1) with HDR at 1080p 2) convert to SDR in 1080p even though TV supports HDR10 3) Outright Not play at all. Will having a 1080P HDR10 Capable TV enough for Youtube to play with HDR or does it also need a 4K resolution for HDR to trigger ? Which among the Smart TV devices should I choose to playback locally stored 4K HEVC HDR10 videos to a 1080P TV with HDR ? (Fire TV 2017, Mi Box 4K, Chromecast Ultra, Fire Stick) Android TV with Nvidia Gamestream and Moonlight Support would be awesome as well. I have a Gigabit Wired Home Network so Network support shouldn't be a problem Thank you guys in advance, if possible please do suggest the best add on devices for me overall for the best experience.
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We just tested a transcode from Phantom4 Pro 4k H264 to Cineform 4k on 3 different machines in the office. 4790k 4c/8t 4ghz was the fastest. 8c/16t 3.6ghz Ryzen 1800x next fastest. Xeon 24c/56t 2.2ghz slowest. What?! How do we get AME (Adobe Media Encoder) to use all available resources so we can offload transcoding to the most powerful machine? We are looking to invest in a dual AMD 7401 server for 3D rendering and I was hoping to use it to transcode also. With 96 threads it should blow through this, but our finding is that AME prefers clock speed over cores. Any thoughts or help appreciated. Willing to use alternative software as long as we can still use Cineform.
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Hey folks I am in the process of converting my media library to HEVC in the idea of saving some space ( correct me if wrong pls ) Say I have a 2 Mbps bitrate h264 encoded video file. I am to convert it to a HEVC format with Wondershare Video Converter. Should I stick with 2 Mbps HEVC to retain clarity or Should I choose 1 Mbps because I heard HEVC occupies half the space compared to h264. In other words Consider h264 bitrate to be a variable { x } What bitrate should h265 be to retain same detail as the original h264 video ??
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Hey guys! So issue, I have Plex Media Server running as a plugin inside FreeNAS, and while it plays everything else fine, MKVs seem to not work, regardless of file, location, etc. From research, it seems that the reason is that the temp storage space where it trans codes needs the equivalent space + 100MB. Where the issue is, is that from what I can tell, I have hundreds of GBs of space left, and no idea how to expand that particular file. Any help? Thanks Guys! Tom Bombadil!
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Hi everybody. Note that i'm french and my english is not as good as i wanted it to be. I'm trying to make from draft a configuration that could handle 2 VMs (or only one with one of your solutions :D) : - FreeNAS (>= 6 hdd) / Plex (~ 10k passmark - 2160p and 1080p clients) / Transmission (or other) / Sonarr (and cie) - Linux based distribution with FFMPEG to encode in "RT" (so only 1 client on Plex at max) the hardware-encoded flow (nvenc x264 1080p high bitrate) from my gaming computer to Twitch (x264 1080p 60fps) It's hard to me cause i don't find a lot of benchmarks or solid passmarks values about FFMPEG requirements to help me in this task. Of course i want to make it cheapest as possible so i looked the Xeon, the new Ryzen, some AMD old socket cpu, i7 but i can't find my piece in that. It'd be highly appreciated if you could provide me a bit of your science guys ! Regars, Jérémy.
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I'm doing research on building a NAS to support Plex streaming/transcoding, as well as simple file storage (backups). Right now I'm trying to focus in on the video transcoding for Plex, and making sure it's not going to be a big problem. On Plex Media Server's CPU recommendations page, they recommend (very roughly), a CPU with a PassMark score of at least 17000 for 4K HDR (50Mbps) transcoding to 1080p (10Mbps). I want to make sure I can support at least one stream at this quality, but I am also trying to not spend so much on a CPU. Plex Media Server also has a page up about hardware accelerated streaming, on which they state that for any OS, they support HW accelerated streaming with Intel's Quick Sync Video feature. However, they do not draw any lines between hardware accelerated streaming and CPU PassMark scores, or indicate if there is any correlation there. My expectation is that using an Intel CPU which supports Intel Quick Sync Video would lower the PassMark score required for 4K HDR transcoding, but I'm not sure by how much or what I should expect. Basically, I can spend $410 on an Intel Core i7-9700K, which has a PassMark score of 17241, but can I get away with a cheaper CPU like the Intel Core i5-9400, which also supports Intel Quick Sync Video, and still be able to transcode 4K HDR video? EDIT: It seems like the main factor in HW transcoding is the iGPU. It appears that Intel's latest is the UHD 630? In that case, I'm wondering what is the cheapest CPU I could get away with that has the UHD 630 iGPU? Or put another way, how much work needs doing that isn't HW accelerated which depends on things other than the iGPU? How important is the number of CPU threads and clock if it already has a UHD 630? EDIT2: Would an Intel G5500T perform the same with regards to HW accelerated Plex transcodes vs. an i7-9700K? EDIT3: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/krcm0209/saved/2cdNQ7 Playing around with a potential build. I am open to feedback for improvements.
