I already have a media sever, but my parents want to watch the movies I have. To save my bandwidth, I want to set up transcoding (since they are at a different house). I have found a gtx 1060 mining card with no video outputs, can I set that up for transcoding? If so, how? I haven’t bought it yet, I want to know if it’s possible before I buy.
No idea about the card w/o video outputs.
Note that you will need a Plex Pass to take advantage of hardware accelerated transcoding.
Also, if you’ve an Intel CPU with Quick Sync Video (embedded GPU), you may be able to use it for transcoding. You’ll want a 7th Gen or later if you want to transcode H.265.
Okay, thank you, are AMD gpus supported?
For AMD GPU cards:
- Windows: Yes
- Linux: No
I’ve never found detailed information for AMD GPUs, so not sure of their capabilities.
NVIDIA publishes the capabilities of their GPUs online: Nvidia Encode/Decode Matrix.
A transcode consists of two parts: Decoding from the current video format and Encoding to the desired format.
Plex encodes everything to H.264, which is supported by all recent GPUs.
The decoding part is key. If you want to transcode H.265/HEVC video (used for HDR video), you need a video card that can decode that format.
For Nvidia, this means a GTX 1050 or better, as shown in their matrix.
As mentioned above, I’ve never seen equivalent info for AMD, so unsure what card you would need.
One more question: What CPU is in your current system?
Just wondering if you’ve tried transcoding with it.
Thank you so much for your help, haven’t been able to get clear answers like this. And yeah… I’ve tried transcoding with my CPU. It’s an fx-4300 @ 4.2ghz. It goes to 100% utilization and I get crazy artifacting. I have and AMD GPU in it right now, but it’s running Linux… So I’m going to try to copy all 110 movies to windows.
Run ubuntu and buy the cheapest Intel cpu with an hd630, thank me later.
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