that is the point of Scarbrtj we got many plex users if not most having powerful enough plex servers to do 4k to 1080p ( with hardware on ) why would you turn off hardware transcoding ? if you can do it and got a recent gpu leave it on so you can do transcoding fast and won’t buffer
what @scarbrtj saying true.
but plex have issues I don’t know why or how
for example my post : Cpu 100% on some transcoding's. How can I fix this? - #8 by FIDO
I have same format videos on the same plex server and trying to play them on the same client one of them buffers forever while the resources stays 1-3% so my cpu/ gpu not being used , while other videos that are the same format do use my gpu/cpu 20% and works perfectly
and btw if you think 20% on quadro is a lot then you need to watch a you tube video shows many 4k transcodings done on single quadro , 20% is like the minimum it uses but its not a true translation of how much percentage each transcoding uses , if you go to 3 transcodings gpu usage of p2000 should be around 35%
8 transcodings 4k to 720p , and if you want more variety of qualities just watch the entire video and that is very old i5 2nd gen 2400 which is a bottleneck coz of the audio uses single core and it have slow single core performance
and btw on that old i5 he did get 3 4K to be transcoded on the cpu alone without the gpu, so yes 4k transcoding is doable on cpu and u dont need super high end pc or even a new pc , we talking about 2nd gen i5 2400 not overclocked.
