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Hello there!
I’ve been running Plex on a Dell PowerEdge T20 (Windows) for a while and it wasn’t fast enough for 4k Transcoding cpubenchmark. I decided to set up Plex on a little more powerful server I had laying around. (Ubuntu 18.04) this server has 2x Intel X557’s cpubenchmark
Running on the new server I suspected with the 2 cpu’s I’d be having enough power for 4k (even the E3 I ran on should run 4k according to some topics I found). If I check my CPU usage in HTOP I see that not all cores are being utilized constantly, is the transcoder not coping with 2 cpu’s?
unless your videos are super-high bitrate videos to begin with, it shouldn’t really have a problem. i do suggest when you add 4k movies that you optimize them before making them available tho. this does all the transcoding in the background then you can just direct stream them with minimal cpu usage and buffering. either that, or get them in lower bitrate files.
since the processors are just + more cores to the program, it shouldn’t even realize theres more than one, just a lot of cores. but on the other side, you’re running two 4-core CPUs… so to the program, essentially an 8-core (16 threads) … so barely any different than an i7-8core.
another thing to note, PLAYING 4k video and CONVERTING 4k video are a totally different thing. so if some forum somewhere says “oh yah, you can play 4k on this np” that doesnt mean “oh yah, you can convert this to a completely different format for live streaming on the fly np”
