I am just trying to get a handle on this new “experimental feature” Should we use it? I have Plex media server installed on a Supper Micro 1u server. The CPU is a Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 with a passmark score of 9631 so no shortage of trans-coding power. I house my media on a Synology NAS 1815+ with 18TB of storage installed now with room to grow so space is not a problem for me either.
I am just trying to get advice of when if anytime we should use this DVR on the fly trans-coding. I am using a HDHR Prime.
+1 to ThorDad’s comment. DVR is flaky as all get out right now. 90% of the time what it records is garbage. I had intended it to offload some of the workload from my Tivo- that idea very quickly went out the window. Don’t waste your time. Until they fix the 100% bug, the crashing Transcoder, the “Garbage Loop”, the general pixilation issues, it’s not worth it.
Back in a previous version I used it and it was fine, but about 3 versions ago they broke it to where it didn’t use intel quicksync anymore and chugged a log of cpu (more than if you just were watching live-tv) so I turned it off and haven’t tried it since.
It was pretty useless too because the file would be the same size as a mpeg2 file of the same quality - there is not config for telling it to encode it at a certain quality - so its like they kept the same bitrate completely. That part I didn’t understand.
I’d think it should of at least been a little bit smaller of a file, so the only benefit at all was directplay would occur. I have an i5 with quicksync so transcoding an mpeg2 for roku takes like only 5% because only the mpeg2 decode and audio change needs to occur by the cpu cores, h264 is a freebie with quicksync.
@RayAdmin I’m on a iMac 5K i7 4GHz 32GB ram and the program scan feature taxes the CPU to 500%. And there is no feature to place it on a schedule and forget about Trans-Code on the fly, it seems that these feature runs my mac for 12 hours before anything gets done. I have to completely shut down Plex server just so that I can keep the mac running at a cruising speed without hearing the fans on constantly.
