Plex CPU affinity on boot.

[tekgeek1205]

So I run Plex on my gaming rig for the rest of the house. When i want to game and someone else wants to use plex and it needs to transcode i set it to use cores 4-7 leaving my games 0-3. This give me smother frame rates. I want to automate this on booting the system. Where is the registry key, xml, or what ever i need to edit to set the server or transcoder to use x core's or x% cpu utilization,  

[desertcomputer]

The easiest way is to run plex in a VM where you can get set amount of core and resources. 

[tekgeek1205]

that would add overhead. If i had extra CPU power i wouldnt have this problem

[brwainer]

1 hour ago, tekgeek1205 said:

So I run Plex on my gaming rig for the rest of the house. When i want to game and someone else wants to use plex and it needs to transcode i set it to use cores 4-7 leaving my games 0-3. This give me smother frame rates. I want to automate this on booting the system. Where is the registry key, xml, or what ever i need to edit to set the server or transcoder to use x core's or x% cpu utilization,  

I don't think you can do it via any prefference specific to

Plex - but there is an alternative to Task Manager that leave running in the background, which can remember and apply CPU affinity automatically. I believe it is Process Explorer, but I'm not 100% sure that is the program I'm thinking of.

[tekgeek1205]

i think im just gong to pre transcode everything to plex driect play standards. Everything that is used to watch the videos are 1080p or 4k and on the local network. Its 1.4TB of video, hopefully most of my files are in formats plex likes. Im just going to use plex's optimized versions tool to check everything and deal with the loud water pumps for a few days.

[Jarsky]

You could just create a ps1 script, and use task scheduler to run it at boot for cores 5, 6, 7, 8. 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19187241/change-affinity-of-process-with-windows-script

 

Theres no need to set the Affinity every time someone wants to watch it, you can leave it always set for the plex process. 

[Dark]

While I can't help you automate cpu affinity changes...have you ever thought about buying a system dedicated to plex?

 

A relatively cheap solution could be the Nvidia shield + 2TB external drive (or map to your desktop).

[alex75871]

Dedicated server FTW.

[Mikensan]

A linux VM wouldn't really add much overhead honestly. I believe you may even get Hyper-V for free in some scenarios which would give you a near-bare-metal experience. You can also go into plex server settings and change the transcode quality. 

[Munich]

3 hours ago, Mikensan said:

A linux VM wouldn't really add much overhead honestly. I believe you may even get Hyper-V for free in some scenarios which would give you a near-bare-metal experience. You can also go into plex server settings and change the transcode quality. 

Just adding to this, if using Linux, you might wanna look into Docker as the virtualization overhead is pretty minimal and lightweight. 

[tekgeek1205]

21 hours ago, Munich said:

Just adding to this, if using Linux, you might wanna look into Docker as the virtualization overhead is pretty minimal and lightweight. 

Whats docker? I've seen it in a post somewhere before. Then went to look it up and ended up going down another path before figuring it out. Does Docker need a Linux host?

[tekgeek1205]

On 9/20/2017 at 6:05 AM, alex75871 said:

Dedicated server FTW.

When I upgrade my CPU/Motherboard next (next summer) every computer in the house shifts up to the next one and i'll be left with a FX4100 for a Dedicated server. By then i should have everything transcodeded in to mp4 (what my roku's like for direct play).

[kladzen]

Use freeware program "process lasso" to do this.

[DJ Nuck Chorris]

On 9/16/2017 at 10:06 PM, tekgeek1205 said:

i think im just gong to pre transcode everything to plex driect play standards. Everything that is used to watch the videos are 1080p or 4k and on the local network. Its 1.4TB of video, hopefully most of my files are in formats plex likes. Im just going to use plex's optimized versions tool to check everything and deal with the loud water pumps for a few days.

What is giving you this cool looking dashboard thing? Is this a web interface?

[BlueCrazii]

8 minutes ago, DJ Nuck Chorris said:

What is giving you this cool looking dashboard thing? Is this a web interface?

Its prob a rainmeter setup

[tekgeek1205]

On 9/25/2017 at 5:07 PM, DJ Nuck Chorris said:

What is giving you this cool looking dashboard thing? Is this a web interface?

 

On 9/25/2017 at 5:16 PM, BlueCrazii said:

Its prob a rainmeter setup

Yes its RainMeter. Its a bit of a pain to setup, but its great.