pmt257 0 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Been an Emby user for almost 3 years. Originally installed it on an older Core2Duo I had laying around. Given the age and free price tag, that machine has been fairly faithful with 1-2 transcoding streams. The family is growing, I'm starting to travel often for work, and we are getting symmetrical gigabit fiber in our area. So I would like to upgrade the server and push toward the 4-6 transcoding streams plus 1-2 direct plays. I saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/6rf9v0/plex_server_build_recommendation_470_16core_32/ For $500, this seems like a pretty killer build. A few questions: Will Emby utilize both processors? I know transcoding has multi-thread support, does this also apply to dual processors? @@pir8radio Anyone using dual Xeons that can comment on support or Pros/Cons? @@Jdiesel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) Been an Emby user for almost 3 years. Originally installed it on an older Core2Duo I had laying around. Given the age and free price tag, that machine has been fairly faithful with 1-2 transcoding streams. The family is growing, I'm starting to travel often for work, and we are getting symmetrical gigabit fiber in our area. So I would like to upgrade the server and push toward the 4-6 transcoding streams plus 1-2 direct plays. I saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/6rf9v0/plex_server_build_recommendation_470_16core_32/ For $500, this seems like a pretty killer build. A few questions: Will Emby utilize both processors? I know transcoding has multi-thread support, does this also apply to dual processors? @@pir8radio Anyone using dual Xeons that can comment on support or Pros/Cons? @@Jdiesel I only have a single xeon in my current server, and it does pretty well with transcoding. I had 16 streams of various resolutions (not the best of tests) running concurrently (that post is on the forums somewhere I couldn't find it). I would say if I had to start over with a fresh setup, I would choose a cpu with quicksync support, some xeon's now support quicksync I believe, But I would even consider going with a non xeon CPU if it had quicksync, for 4-6 streams I don't think you need dual CPU's. I am personally now looking at some NVENC video cards to off load my transcoding from my xeon because my socket on my MB doesn't support any of the CPU's with quicksync... I wish I had unlimited cash for an Nvidia P40 new (like $11k lol)... But I'm looking to purchase a single Nvidia P2000 with hopes that I can add a second or third in the future.. Doubt I would need it (if what is being discussed in this thread is true), but really just doing it as a hobby build so I can say I can run XX HD transcodes lol. Edited August 7, 2017 by pir8radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swynol 375 Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 its a difficult one. At the moment I run my server on an old i3 3420. using quicksync it can transcode 2-3 aslong as i stagger start them. Most my main devices direct play. I have been looking at an upgrade for a while, I'm not sure yet whether to go xeon 8 or 10 core, or keep it lower powered and look at a newer i5 which has quicksync. Alternatively i have been keeping an eye on the Ryzen AMD stuff. if their lower powered chips which high amount of cores can transcode a decent amount of streams then i may head in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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