PLEX transcoding with NVidia video card, can it be done? but how?

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Good morning,
I would like to make a server for PLEX Windows 10 / server 2019 with i9-9900K - 32GB RAM - 1TB SSD M.2 - HDD 4TB (for movies / tv series / music) - USB / pcie decoder DVB-T2 - Nvidia video card?

I also wanted to take an Nvidia video card to do transcoding, which one do you recommend? I would like to spend no more than € 400, I was thinking of an NVidia GTX 1660 Ti 6GB and would like to know before taking the video card if there is something to consider? any tricks to improve transcoding?

Can transcoding be done on direct TV transmission?

the vision is from two accounts for two people also simultaneously a few times

Thanks in advance for your answers

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This CPU contains the QuickSync module. It is also of a recent-enough generation (Coffee Lake), so that you already have the hardware transcoding support for all the video codecs that matter currently.

The nVidia GPU is simply not necessary for your use case.
It would be a different matter if your CPU would be from AMD. Then you’d very much need the additional GPU.

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https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-Transcoding
I saw this link that indicates the performance with NVidia video cards that look excellent, I knew that NVidia video cards with CUDA worked well the transcoding

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why do you need an AMD GPU?

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Read again what Otto wrote. If you owned a AMD CPU, than you would need an additional GPU. Since you plan to buy an Intel CPU with integrated GPU, you should be fine without an additional GPU.

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ok, I have not read the sentence well, thanks for letting me repeat it

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No worries. You can start your built without dedicated GPU and see if you are happy with what the iGPU of the i7 delivers. If not, a GPU is readily ordered and installed.

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Hi,

What about AMD with Radeon Vega 11 Graphics integrated ?

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ok, does the GPU integrated in the processor work with a VM (Virtual machine) made on ProxMox?
https://www.proxmox.com/en/

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Don’t know for sure, but should be doable. The iGPU can be also passed through VMs in general, but I have no experience using proxmox (I use unraid). If the iGPU is in an own IOMMU group, than you can pass it through I believe.

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Thanks for the info

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You’re welcome. Again you can test it first with the iGPU and if you face problems, you can add the dedicated GPU later on.

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yes, I still have to buy the components to assemble the server

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the pc I have now does not support IOMMU and therefore I have to replace it with a self-built sserver

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I see, at least the i9-9900K that you referenced in your first post does, but you probably know that already. Do you plan to use it for something else than Plex? The CPU itself is pretty beefy and overpowered solely for Plex.

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yes, I have to use it for another, I have to put two other VMs in proxmox, one that manages my network, one my home automation and on the same plex I have a remote gaming project.

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Ok you obviously know what you need and how much you want to spent, just wanted to throw in that it might not need the one beefiest Intel CPUs around :smiley:
Good luck building the machine then.

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last question, how do i make plex always start and use that specific GPU, if the integrated GPU doesn’t work?

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Well if you use a Win 10 VM for that, you simply pass the GPU to it. From there, this works like a normal Win 10 installation with Plex on it. So auto start of Plex and hardware acceleration have to be activated in the VM.
This is the same whether you use the iGPU or a dedicated GPU.

How the handling of VMs is done in Proxmox I have zero clue.

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I know that on Windows if you have two different GPUs there is the possibility to decide from the properties which GPU should use the program, right?