Intel Quick Sync Video

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I picked up a Haswell CPU just to try out the latest and greatest QuickSync and I still find the quality and compatibility issues make it a waste of a thought. It basically only works well with AVC/23.976 constant. Anything that is variable frame rate gets all stuttery in a lot of places and anything 29.97 is all over the place. Throw in interlaced content and it's speed is thrown out the window. It becomes slower than FFMPEG software.

Curious, what software did you use to test transcode quality? I've recently been using QuickSync as implemented in the Handbrake nightlies (svn6163, Balanced, Constant Quality QP 20) on my Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge builds and so far, it has worked quite well with the content I've tested (Harry Potter BD 1080p VC-1, Star Trek BD 1080p H.264, Charmed DVD 480i MPEG-2). Watching on an iPad 4, I can't really tell the difference between the QuickSync transcodes and x264 (Medium, Constant Quality RF 20).
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With another QuickSync supported NAS is about to hit the market, would really like to see some QuickSync transcoding love from the Plex team.

Spotted this in the Qnap forums when reading up on the ts-x51 range. 

http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=95361

Looks like there is a SMB version (ss-x53) of the latest low power QNAP servers hitting the market next month, will have the j1900 4 core Celeron processor in it

http://ark.intel.com/products/78867/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J1900-2M-Cache-up-to-2_42-GHz

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I would really like this for converting and compressing content for Plex sync.

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Are there any updates on this?

It has been a while...

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Curious, what software did you use to test transcode quality? I've recently been using QuickSync as implemented in the Handbrake nightlies (svn6163, Balanced, Constant Quality QP 20) on my Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge builds and so far, it has worked quite well with the content I've tested (Harry Potter BD 1080p VC-1, Star Trek BD 1080p H.264, Charmed DVD 480i MPEG-2). Watching on an iPad 4, I can't really tell the difference between the QuickSync transcodes and x264 (Medium, Constant Quality RF 20).

Here's a good look at Quicksync on Haswell from an HTPC perspective http://missingremote.com/review/intel-quick-sync-examining-haswell-performance

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the problem is FFMPEG related https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2591

If you read up on this, some progress has been made. Something tells me that adding the --enable-nonfree option wouldn't be difficult to add. I just lack the skills.

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Rise from your grave!

+1 on quicksync. Qnap is telling me is on Plex's roadmap but who knows.

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Here's hoping, it would really transform these NAS's into the ideal Plex server.

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Just an FYI some of them got it going under windows for now with Media Browser.

http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/10723-gpu-transcoding/

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Excuse my ignorance, but how much of performance gain are we talking about with QuickSync?

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Excuse my ignorance, but how much of performance gain are we talking about with QuickSync?

To quote that linked thread:

 instead of encoding around 23 fps @ 97% CPU I am now getting over 60 fps @ 95% CPU on my small J1900 board

To be fair, a J1900 is pretty much the best case scenario due to the low CPU power. Either way if you've got multiple transcode sessions going on this should notice quite a difference if QuickSync is integrated into Plex

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If you want your "+1's" to count for something, please make you that you click "Like This" on my original post. It doesn't do anything for me, but it does push up the popularity of this post.

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FFMPEG: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/4e08c821106fc1d6d358864abf0d8488b12f38c6

LIBAV: https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/4e08c821106fc1d6d358864abf0d8488b12f38c6

(QuickSync is in FFMPEG and LIBAV)

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