I’m thinking of migrating my old’ish Win7 PC install of PMS. Just proactive replacement of an old PC and hard drives…the i7 on there has been doing a good job.
I see a bare bones tower server with a Xeon E3-1225 v5 3.3GHz Skylake quad-core for a good price. I think that should be enough for a few concurrent streams and maybe a little transcoding.
The meat of my question is whether the Linux (I like CentOS) PMS install is fully on-par with the features and functions of the Windows version, or will I lose some features (specific codecs or transcoding or anything)? It would be a headless, linux install. Reading some of the threads in the forum, IDK if PMS can use a video card for offloading transcoding or something (I could install one if the linux version would use it, even though I probably wouldn’t have a monitor connected to it)?
be careful what chipset the tower motherboard uses - E3’s only allow quicksync on the higher end C236 chipset. (No PMS, other than some limited older test releases yet supports GPU transcoding - but you’ll need that chipset when it comes)
Linux does NOT have all the ‘bells & whistles’ as WIndows. It’s not intended / designed to / never will be as flashy as Windows. It gets the job done without complications . Command line use is still 75% of the focus
I know CentOS pretty darned well. I use it daily for my business servers. I have no problem with command lines and bash syntax. If that’s needed for setup and configuration, I don’t mind. Since we’re talking about PMS here, I don’t need anything “flashy”…what would that get me? I don’t play the videos on the PMS box, I just want it to transcode, index and serve video (I currently don’t even use the audio library features) to my various Plex Clients (I have windows, android and iOS clients).
Linux tends to be more stable, efficient and less susceptible to virus attack. It also costs $0.
Many think “Linux is the answer to everything”. FAR from it. It’s not for the faint of heart. If you know it, go for it. I do the bulk of the Linux support here
@trudge : looks like that server does use the C236 chipset. I guess that’s a point in its favor? Are there specific config items I would have to enable for PMS to take advantage of quicksync?
@aweber said: @trudge : looks like that server does use the C236 chipset. I guess that’s a point in its favor? Are there specific config items I would have to enable for PMS to take advantage of quicksync?
Thanks for those details!
Chipset support : C236 = Tick
CPU Support : E3-1225 v5 = Tick
Bios Support : ??
OS Support : Centos = Tick.
PMS Support : Coming
