Thinking about building another server for emby.

[tdiguy 96]

I am thinking about building another emby server. Nothing fancy but i kinda want to start also mining cryptocurrency ( not bitcoins though those require far too much gpu horsepower for me to get into ) but i was thinking of a i5 or i7 build. Which would be plenty for my house we dont normally strain the little intel celeron 4 core i currently have since i now use mi boxes and virtually everything direct plays. I do however really like hardware acceleration for converting the .ts videos into .mp4's since it saves a good deal of hard drive space.

I am thinking about switching to centos, but i am also curious if its worth switching. I would be switching primarily to use intel quicksyn ( from what i understand it is directly supported ) so i am also curious if quicksyn is much better than vaapi or if its mostly just a wash?

 

Thanks.

[Sammy 735]

I have an i5 4690k Haswell / Devil's Canyon cr 2014 with Intel HD4000 and it chews right through my nightly MCEBuddy ComSkip and Handbrake conversions to mkv from ts while playback is underway on at least one local ShieldTV and possibly family's remote clients requiring transcoding without issue.

 

IT is all you need unless you desire to process multiple files at once and / or you want to convert to HEVC / h.265 to conserve even more space; for this, you're going to need a LOT more.

 

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[tdiguy 96]

Mostly i am curious about intel quicksyn. My ultra cheap setup right now works fine for our use at home. I have spent more money on hard drives due to me being a clutz (cement floors are not forgiving when it comes to dropping a hard drive) than on my motherboard, ram and power supply ( cpu was included with mobo ). I like how there are more options available with quicksyn but no idea if it is any better or not. I was trying to install it on ubuntu but i have found that to be rather cumbersome and not really supported by intel so directions are difficult. 

[mastrmind11 717]

Mostly i am curious about intel quicksyn. My ultra cheap setup right now works fine for our use at home. I have spent more money on hard drives due to me being a clutz (cement floors are not forgiving when it comes to dropping a hard drive) than on my motherboard, ram and power supply ( cpu was included with mobo ). I like how there are more options available with quicksyn but no idea if it is any better or not. I was trying to install it on ubuntu but i have found that to be rather cumbersome and not really supported by intel so directions are difficult. 

First question, why do you need it?  You're not going to get QSV working on Linux.  VAAPI is pretty universal in the nix land, but again I question why you need it.

[tdiguy 96]

First question, why do you need it?  You're not going to get QSV working on Linux.  VAAPI is pretty universal in the nix land, but again I question why you need it.

Have you attempted it in centos? Its supposedly supported by intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-computing/quicksync-video-ffmpeg-install-valid.html 

I am not here to ask why, I am asking if anyone has done it and need is always so subjective. Hell do i need a emby media server at all?

[mastrmind11 717]

Have you attempted it in centos? Its supposedly supported by intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-computing/quicksync-video-ffmpeg-install-valid.html 

I am not here to ask why, I am asking if anyone has done it and need is always so subjective. Hell do i need a emby media server at all?

I have not tried, though I've heard CentOS w/ kernel 4.x has QSV support out of the box, so good point.