Comment on Where to start with setting up my own server?
esperal@pawb.social 6 days ago Hi there ! If your i5 gen10 can only handle one 4k transcode, you might want to double check if your hardware acceleration parameters are correctly set ^^
My home server runs on a small Intel N100, a 4k transcode eats up 30% of the CPU at most. I checked, it can transcode 3 streams without any lag, up to 4 transcodings if nothing else is eating the cpu. I’m not using Plex though, I got Jellyfin. I don’t know how Plex handles things.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
my i5 doesn’t have a built in graphics core. it’s just a CPU. this means hardware acceleration for video encoding is intensive.
like I said before too, there are other services that are running on the server as well. things like siem, aggregators, containerized desktops, etc.
thanks for the info though! if I ever upgrade the CPU in the future I’ll definitely get one with a GPU for hardware acceleration.
Oh OK! This makes sense then :)