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I am running Plex on a Windows 10 64-bit laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor, 4GB RAM. However I have noticed that Plex won’t recognize the 2 cores. It runs on only one core.
Please see the attached screen shots. The Plex Transcoder.exe (32bit) process makes my total cpu usage raise to 50%, while the Plex dashboard shows cpu at 100%.
How can I make Plex itself and Plex Transcoder use the 2 cores?
Right click on the task manager cpu graph, choose change graph to logical processors.
Subtitles and audio transcoding are single threaded and can cap a single core.
I changed graph to logical processors, see below.
“Subtitles and audio transcoding are single threaded and can cap a single core.” --> I guess you meant that transcoding will not use of the second core, right?
most video transcoding is multiple core, but subtitles, audio, and VC-1 content is single threaded.
You have plex pass and a new enough cpu, if it has a built in gpu, you should be able to use hardware transcoding.
It won’t do 4k or hevc/x265 transcoding (not new enough), but should help with other content (other than the above already mentioned).
@ivanfjunior that processor is actually not supported with hardware transcode, you’ll need QuickSync Video, which didn’t come until the “Core” series came out with Sandy Bridge in 2011.
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