HI all, I’m currently using an old QNAP for PMS but looking to upgrade to something that can handle h265 audio transcodes (from DTS to AC3) - Alot of people are suggesting Gen8’s but they seem to be rocking horse poo these days. I’ve been looking at the Gen10’s and wondered if anyone had successfu…

What CPU power do you have? The biggest issue with H.265 (HEVC) is the decoding part. Everything else is a, relatively speaking, piece of cake. No they aren’t ‘rocking horse poo’. HEVC HDR requires a team of Clydesdale horses to decode

@ChuckPA said: What CPU power do you have? The biggest issue with H.265 (HEVC) is the decoding part. Everything else is a, relatively speaking, piece of cake. No they aren’t ‘rocking horse poo’. HEVC HDR requires a team of Clydesdale horses to decode My current QNAP is a ts559 pro + so i…

Thanks for that info. Yes, the Atom D510 will shovel the data nicely but in the PMS context it’s grossly under powered. As you’ve seen, then the transcoder gets involved, the eggs tumble from the basket quickly. Regarding the HP… The Gen8 won’t do HEVC transcoding. You might be able to get i…

@ChuckPA said: Xeons don’t have GPUs. The entry level E3 12x5 v5/v6 cpus have a Intel P530, P580 or P630 GPU like their consumer level counterparts. Now here is the thing: some motherboard supporting those cpus disable the buildin GPU and use a cheap onboard solution.

Xeons don’t have GPUs that you can use in those boxes :slight_smile: Thanks for reminding me to clarify. E3 series: Some do E5 & E7 series: None

Hello, Did you purchase a Gen 10 Machine, I’m intersted in this answer too as my current PMS is sick? Given the Gen 10 is now a AMD chip, Whats the conversions like?

Me too. I was just in an AMD training on the new AMD servers and the Microservers came up. I’d like to retire my Mac Mini and all the external drives and have in one box.

I have just bought a Gen 10 a few days ago. I install Ubuntu 16.04.4 server on it. And hardware-accelerating encoding/decoding not work very well.

@“ doctorjzy@gmail.com ” said: I have just bought a Gen 10 a few days ago. I install Ubuntu 16.04.4 server on it. And hardware-accelerating encoding/decoding not work very well. Can you clarify in what way it doesn’t work well?

@“ doctorjzy@gmail.com ” said: I have just bought a Gen 10 a few days ago. I install Ubuntu 16.04.4 server on it. And hardware-accelerating encoding/decoding not work very well. I was also wondering if you could provide an update or more information, Im interested in getting a gen 10

HP Microserver Gen10 for PMS

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mcgrog June 28, 2019, 11:11am 14

For anyone who still had hope to turn a micro gen 10 into a small use case pms server, ive posted results from my all amd build fully transcoding a 50g 4k hevc 10bit to 1080p h264 here.

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