Plex hw transcoding?

[Morphy]

Dear Plexies.

Im considering moving my server from a AMD Ryzen 1700x to Intel I7 8700 hexa-core since i7 with coffee lake should be able to hardware transcode. My current media is primarily 720p and some 1080p content. How many streams can this hw transcode handle and what quality can I expect?

Also - is there a “restriction” on when the server says GPU is overloaded and will start using the CPU ? Will those two work cooperatively ?

My server will run on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - any issues with Intel drivers or something? Hope for an installation “out of the box” so I dont need to install anything else

Thanks

Morphy

[Balthazar2k4]

Instead of making a platform shift consider a Quadro P2000 for your existing machine. It is an absolute beast.

HW Transcoding with Nvidia Quadro p2000

Hi, I’ve been browsing the forum and the internet to know what to expect if I install a quadro p2000 in my plex server. Is there someone who’s using one? How many streams will it support, I know it’s unlimited from the technical specifications, but real use case is what I want to know. How many HEVC streams, H264 streams, mixed… I can get a Quadro P2000 for a good price and I want to be sure that it would give a good advantage in maximum streams I can transcode at the same time. It would be …

[Cafe_Diem]

The Quadro can’t handle hardware decoding on Linux, correct? Just encoding?

Also, for Intel, if it’s an interlaced signal, I’m not sure quick sync can deinterlace when using hardware acceleration on Linux.

[Morphy]

Thanks

But its a rentet server .

[timekills]

I’m using Plex in a Docker container (so…Linux) on a remote Linux server running Ubuntu 18.04
THe CPU is an Intel Xeon E3-1246V3. So, a few gens back, but one of the Xeons with iGPU and does HW transcoding.

It not only works if Plex is run on the host, but I even have it working from inside the Docker container.
The CPU I use can’t do x265 in hardware unfortunately, and the quality is considerably worse than CPU transcoding. But the box can do ~6-8 1080p transcode streams through only using CPU, while I’ve had 20+ through hardware/iGPU without breaking a sweat.