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Moomadness

Hi

 

I am thinking about upgrading my PC that is used for 2 things

 

1) DL TV/Movies (Radarr and Sonarr) - this is then unpacked and moved to a NAS unit (SAB)

2) Emby server

 

there are 2 sets of people view using emby. My home network (so no transcoding is required) and then some friends who remotely use emby . upto 6 people streaming but generally 3 at any 1 time. the media is stored on 3 NAS units within the network. my internet speed upload is 20mb

 

my current rid is

i5 3470S

corsair XT SSD

12gb memory

 

most of my media is 720p or 1080p and people can watch things fine. HOWEVER i have started to download some True 4k, I can view locally fine but it doesn’t seem to transcode well and it maxes out the cpu and the PC cant keep up with the demands. this was on a 70gb 4k movie.

 

my question is - is it worth building a new rig to assit with the transcoding demads and if so how do you feel about a AMD Ryzen 5/7 proc or any suggestions on what would be worth considering and does the Emby software prefer higher proc speeds or the more cores the better.

 

thanks for reading

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SHSPVR

A few ways to go with a new Video card for Hardware accelerated and this what I have read so far

You need a fair lee new GPU

Nvidia 9xx GPU only up to 2 Hardware Transcoding Steam

AMD GPU only up to 6 Hardware Transcoding Steam (the test I saw RX580 and Vega 64)

I'm not sure about AMD Ryzen 3/5 2200G/2400G which has on board Vega but it should be able to do 6 or possible more

Next Intel i3-8100 8Gen more then 10 Steam

Then in Emby just enable Hardware Transcoding

Your best beat is buy new CPU and Motherboard with DDR4 memory

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Wait until the next server release, and see how well people report transcoding 4K, works. Then you'll have better information. One thing to keep in mind, HDR tone mapping isn't even close to being implemented. Just wait a while. A lot of things are developing, very quickly. We're on the cusp of great things. 

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A few ways to go with a new Video card for Hardware accelerated and this what I have read so far

You need a fair lee new GPU

Nvidia 9xx GPU only up to 2 Hardware Transcoding Steam

AMD GPU only up to 6 Hardware Transcoding Steam (the test I saw RX580 and Vega 64)

I'm not sure about AMD Ryzen 3/5 2200G/2400G which has on board Vega but it should be able to do 6 or possible more

Next Intel i3-8100 8Gen more then 10 Steam

Then in Emby just enable Hardware Transcoding

Your best beat is buy new CPU and Motherboard with DDR4 memory

 

thanks for the responce, based on your reply are you saying i should be using the GPU to transcode ?

my thought was to replace the CPU with something more powerful for the demands made by remote connections. 

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Moomadness

Wait until the next server release, and see how well people report transcoding 4K, works. Then you'll have better information. One thing to keep in mind, HDR tone mapping isn't even close to being implemented. Just wait a while. A lot of things are developing, very quickly. We're on the cusp of great things. 

sounds great and i look forward to it, in terms of hardware should i be upgrading the CPU for the remote user demands on the hardware or is this specc fine ?

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sounds great and i look forward to it, in terms of hardware should i be upgrading the CPU for the remote user demands on the hardware or is this specc fine ?

You can probably do 4-5 simultaneous transcodes w/ that chip ,so an upgrade is up to you.  

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470S+%40+2.90GHz&id=823

 

But generally speaking, HA is a bit of a mess everywhere with QSV for Windows being the most stable.  I'd lean toward CPU just because I don't have time/desire to figure out ways to get HA reliable.

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thanks for the responce, based on your reply are you saying i should be using the GPU to transcode ?

my thought was to replace the CPU with something more powerful for the demands made by remote connections. 

 

You should be fine Intel Quick Sync

If want next best step then by all mean look at the Ryzen Threadripper 1900x the only down side is high cost of the motherboard vs AMD Ryzen 7

From everything I know of 4K HEVC 10bit it is pain in butt to work with

 

You can probably do 4-5 simultaneous transcodes w/ that chip ,so an upgrade is up to you.  

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470S+%40+2.90GHz&id=823

 

But generally speaking, HA is a bit of a mess everywhere with QSV for Windows being the most stable.  I'd lean toward CPU just because I don't have time/desire to figure out ways to get HA reliable.

 

I have 3Gen Intel that even better then his 3470S as mine is 3570k and it is used less with 4K with QSV and only support MPEG-2/H264 (For HEVC 10 bit we need Kaby Lake / Gemini Lake / Coffee Lake / Cannon Lake) unless run thru my Vega 56 (Gaming System) which not even main server just for testing it in tell I can build a new server but for me I see no need for 4K Video but if and when ATSC 3.0 final dose arrive then I worry about it then and I hope by that time we have much better hardware and software available to us we some years off for to that happing.

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