runtimesandbox 152 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I've been running on Linux for a while now as a virtual machine on a cluster. This has mostly been working great apart from issues with https and sockets getting stuck open. Is Emby Server better on windows? How do people find it for reliability when running 24/7? If moving to Windows, will intel quick sync work out of the box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitsville 37 Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 I've been running on Linux for a while now as a virtual machine on a cluster. This has mostly been working great apart from issues with https and sockets getting stuck open. Is Emby Server better on windows? How do people find it for reliability when running 24/7? If moving to Windows, will intel quick sync work out of the box? My W10 box runs 24/7 and I have had zero issues. Cannot comment on quick sync as I don't use it. It does seem to be a simple set and forget thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Mine runs very well. Quick Sync works pretty well. I'm sure improvements will be made over time. Here's my setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runtimesandbox 152 Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Very nice setup! What versions of Windows are you running? Also, @ what performance improvements have you seen with quicksync? Any issues you've had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 (edited) Using Windows Server 2012 Essentials here. Emby Server runs as a service. Haven't had any problems. Box just chugs away in the background. If I need to do anything on it, which is rarely, I RDP into it. Edited September 22, 2016 by Koleckai Silvestri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 The main benefit I get with using QS is that I'm constantly doing other things on my computer. So having it enabled, takes some of the load off the processor. So far, it works pretty well. No real issues that I'm aware of. Raw processing might a bit quicker, just means the processor will very active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-Highlander 145 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 (edited) Server 2008 R2 running on this setup The server also runs a Hyper-V server which has a few small VMs on it (although Emby runs on the host system). It's on 24/7 and give or take the odd time an Emby upgrade has caused minor issues (always fairly quickly fixed by the Emby guys) it's pretty much rock solid and has been for a couple of years or so now. I actually run a couple of small Linux VMs but have never tried Emby on it as it's just easy and reliable on Windows. Edited September 23, 2016 by Ian-Highlander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVe3283 7 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 I run Emby in a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM, running on a Server 2012 R2 host. It has been really reliable for me, though I don't use any kind of hardware acceleration inside the VM. Not even sure I could if I wanted to. Resource usage by the Emby VM is fairly low, so I don't think there are any issues with sockets getting stuck open or anything on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scharbag 15 Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I was running the server on FreeNAS as a plugin jail. I had a few issues with it and have switched to a Windows 7 VM running in a VirtualBox jail. The windows server has been far more reliable in my situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runtimesandbox 152 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Thanks for your responses everyone. I am getting the feeling that I may have to move over to Windows as reluctant as I am about that. Big advocate of Linux but i've had no end of problems with emby on linux and want something I can just set and leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breezytm 124 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 I ran Emby on Windows in the past but currently running it on my nas box and they both seems to work fairly well. My issue with the nas is performance in regards to retrieving metadata. I can understand why it clocks the cpu at 80% for transcoding but I can't for the life of me understand why does it use so much resource for browsing and loading the metadata. Plex running on the same box does it effortlessly. But I am sure we'll get there. It is 800x better than it was last year so lol. Huge process. Thanks Dev team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puithove 208 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 I'm running it on Archlinux. It's been a really long time since I've had any reliability issues. Early on (when the Linux builds were somewhat new) I did have some, but they have been worked out. I have not seen any of the issues with sockets being left open. I've seen the reports of it, and seen that apparently that doesn't happen when running it under a Docker container - might be worth trying in your case, especially since it sounds like you'd like to stick with Linux. One other advantage with the container route is that it has a standardized bundle of libraries and helper apps so that you're not mixing and matching with whatever your distro has packaged. Performance wise it should run just about as well as directly on the host... which is better than running in a full VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorac 100 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I run it under Windows with very few issues apart from needing to kill ffmpeg processes from the Roku thumbnail plugin. QS doesn't work worth a damn. That might because a lot of my files are x265 but even going to play x264 doesn't usually work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) I run it under Windows with very few issues apart from needing to kill ffmpeg processes from the Roku thumbnail plugin. QS doesn't work worth a damn. That might because a lot of my files are x265 but even going to play x264 doesn't usually work. Do you have an additional graphics card in the machine? If so, Quick Sync won't work. Do you have a monitor hooked up to the onboard graphics? If not, Quick Sync won't work. You also have to install drivers from Intel. These aren't installed on any computer, that I've seen, by default. Microsoft's and OEM Drivers don't support Quick Sync. At least that is my experience with my I5-6400. Edited September 26, 2016 by Koleckai Silvestri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorac 100 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 No other graphics card, monitor is hooked up. All drivers from Intel are installed. Sent from my STV100-3 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 It also depends on your transcoding settings. That's going to determine the workload when streaming. I'm going to test mine, when I get home, and see how active it is. I have an i7 6700k so it makes light work of most things but I'll monitor the GPU and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorac 100 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I seem to recall that when I enabled it things wouldn't play or they stopped and started. I'll try it again if no one is on the server when I'm home. Sent from my STV100-3 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I've never had an issue with anything not playing because of QS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 (edited) Ok, so here are my settings, and results. And Lower CPU load and higher bit rate. I'd say that was significant. And it worked seamlessly I should also add that I have stream bandwidth set to 11Mbps. So QS is able to maximize on that . Edited October 9, 2016 by Doofus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcm00re 18 Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 You also have to install drivers from Intel. These aren't installed on any computer, that I've seen, by default.Where can I find these drivers? I have an nvedia graphics card that I am hooked up to (instead of the Intel onboard graphics) and I seem to be able to do Quick Sync encoding -- that said performance doesn't seem to be as good as I expected (so maybe I need these new drivers). I have a i7-6700 BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoutingMan 95 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Do you have a monitor hooked up to the onboard graphics? If not, Quick Sync won't work. You also have to install drivers from Intel. These aren't installed on any computer, that I've seen, by default. Microsoft's and OEM Drivers don't support Quick Sync. Slylake i5: QSV works fine while the HD530 drives the display. Drivers are readily available from Intel if you built your own pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Where can I find these drivers? I have an nvedia graphics card that I am hooked up to (instead of the Intel onboard graphics) and I seem to be able to do Quick Sync encoding -- that said performance doesn't seem to be as good as I expected (so maybe I need these new drivers). I have a i7-6700 BTW. According to a Google Search, you can find Intel's Graphic Drivers here: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers.html Don't know how it will coexist with your Nvidia drivers. Though Nvidia offers similar technology with NVENC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcm00re 18 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Thanks Koleckai...I don't know why I couldn't locate them when I looked last time. But drivers from there wouldn't install for me; HP makes me get the drivers from them. When I looked last night HP had finally posted and updated version. I'll have to give Live TV transcoding another try to see if it works now -- and see if transcoding previously recorded shows produces something watchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcm00re 18 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Oh, and in Windows 10 I don't think you have to be using the onboard graphics to use Quick Sync (but I might have had to change a BIOS setting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runtimesandbox 152 Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 As an update to this for anyone that is interested. I have switched to running it on server 2016. I also run a test version on Linux still. They are both as stable as each other and both as unreliable with using https (from my limited testing) I have since started using a reverse ssl proxy in front of both servers which as resolved all issues with SSL and made them both very stable. Yet to try out quicksync Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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