I read that “Nvidia graphics cards are limited to hardware-accelerated encoding of 2 videos at a time. This is a limitation from Nvidia” I am rebuilding a new server with a 12,000 score CPU and am also adding 3 Nvidia GTX 1070TI Zotac Minis in SLI.
Does that mean it will be able to support 6 then? And anything over 6 would be software encoded/decoded? They still can lighten the load of transcoding on the CPU right??
You’ll be far better off by just going with a top-shelf Intel cpu with Quick Sync support. Instead of those add-on GPU cards.
Yep what OttoKerner said.
Get an i7 or 19 or an xeon with the highest passmark per buck
Careful with Xeons: only some of them have Quick Sync.
Isn’t quick sync for GPU encoding/decoding? Why does it matter if you’re saying stick to a better CPU? Or it’s still critical either way?
OP wants to put 3 GPUs in the computer. I say, scrap those and go with QuickSync instead.
Ok. I ordered a new i7-4790K 4Ghz CPU (score of ~11,182).
The one I’m running now in a similar setup machine was an i7 4770R (9828 score) and it successfully runs about 6-7 transcodes and 3-4 direct plays at the same time without issues. Just trying to boost it up a little bit with adding a few more friends.
But if I have (2) 1070 TI cards just sitting around I should still add them and enable hardware encoding to the new i7-4790K setup, right?
Certainly you can try it. But I doubt it will make considerable impact performance-wise.
I believe Plex will only use your primary GPU for hardware acceleration - so you can’t go SLI. Would need to use a Quadro P2000, for example, if you want nVidia w/2+ encodes.
So Im in the process of configuring the new PC and just waiting on the new CPU. Once I have all my “apps” and software configured, is this still the correct way to move the settings from one PC to the new one?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/
I by no means had problems all the time, but I did have occasional issues. Just dont want to copy and folders that may carry issues to the new setup. Random connection issues. Random “server not available” when it was. Blah blah. Overall it always worked. Is following these directions the best route still? (I dont see a date on these instructions to make sure they are still relevant). TIA.
It’s still valid.
Make sure that Plex server on the source machine is shut down during the copy process!
Media storage locations should use the same addresses/drive letters/folder names as they had on the old machine.
All my movies on the new setup I’v created on duplicate drives have the same drive letters BUT are now in individual folders to correct “Radarr” movie detection (they couldnt all just be in a ROOT folder like “Disney\Aladdin (1992).mkv” now it would be “Disney\Aladdin\Aladdin (1992).mkv” Is this going to cause a bunch of issues? All my structures are this way now (every movie is now inside a folder with the movie name instead of a root directory).
Or do I just re-scan the “Disney” folder after importing the backed up files and it will correct to the new file names/paths but still use the metadata? I would just do a complete fresh install without any backups as I’m on fiber and pulling all the metadata downloading wouldn’t be that horrible, but I have so much time I put into custom covers for stuff like “Workout” folder that it never grabs right and I took forever manually editing back in the day which would suck to do again…
If you change the path to your files, I see massive issues - at least with custom, un-matchable item.
The only way to solve this cleanly is this method:
Ok. I’ll just do a fresh install and load covers from that workout folder manually again to avoid headaches.
As for once I sign-in to the new server system with the original server credentials, map the directories, and let it pull all the data down again - all my users watch histories and “On Deck” status will still be in tact or will it look to them once they load Plex as if they never watched a show yet? Will I have to resend invites? After this I should be good - these are always the main concerns. TIA.
If you moved all data, ‘played’ status should have traveled with it.
However, all those ‘unmatched’ items may get reset.
Same applies if you changed paths and have used a different metadata agent in the past than now (Plex Movie vs TheMoviedatabase). If the movie is now matched with a different agent, ‘played’ status may reset.
But if I just continue with fresh install backing up nothing and using my original login info to take control of the original Plex server on the new rig, their history is lost then?
Yes, the history is stored in the database file on your old server.
It is not stored in your plex.tv account.
Do i have to do anything for quick sync to work or is it just good to go out of the box (Just got my new i7 4790K CPU)
Would it hurt to enable hardware acceleration since the GTX 1070 TI is sitting in the system anyways? Or will that take away from the CPU using quick sync? Or maybe quick sync still needs hardware acceleration enabled anyways? Thank you!
Yeah I read that but I still don’t understand my questions listed above but thanks anyways
