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Hi, 

I have an Nvidia Geforce 1030 pciex grapics card on w10 Emby server.  This gives me access to all the NVDEC decoders however this card does not support any encoding.

I also have an Intel I5 8500, LGA1151, 3.0 GHZ, 6 Core, 9 MB cache cpu with UHD 630 graphics, which does provide some Quicksync encoding support, but it seems that the Nvidia card disables the intel graphics.

I believe that one can enable both in the BIOS and select the PCIEX card as primary.

Is this an acceptable practice to get both Nvidia and Intel Quicksync capabilty ??

If so will I get any advantage in particular if my main client is a Shield Pro ??

Thanks in advance :)

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Is this an acceptable practice to get both Nvidia and Intel Quicksync capabilty ??

Hi, @@softworkz may have some insight, but I think even when it works it might not actually end up being very beneficial to use two different cards in the same session, especially when it's from two different vendors.

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Hi, 

I have an Nvidia Geforce 1030 pciex grapics card on w10 Emby server.  This gives me access to all the NVDEC decoders however this card does not support any encoding.

I also have an Intel I5 8500, LGA1151, 3.0 GHZ, 6 Core, 9 MB cache cpu with UHD 630 graphics, which does provide some Quicksync encoding support, but it seems that the Nvidia card disables the intel graphics.

I believe that one can enable both in the BIOS and select the PCIEX card as primary.

Is this an acceptable practice to get both Nvidia and Intel Quicksync capabilty ??

If so will I get any advantage in particular if my main client is a Shield Pro ??

Thanks in advance :)

 

@aja07aja07 - The latest release (4.4.x) prevents invalid combinations of decoders and encoders, so you can't do anything wrong when having two GPUs, no matter how you configure it.

 

Since your CPU is 8th Gen, you might see even better performance than with the Nvidia GPU, so probably it's best to switch to QuickSync altogether.

Try to enable the onboard graphics in the bios and assign the maximal amount of memory (don't leave at 'auto').

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aja07

@@softworkz thanks for responding. I think I may pull the Nvidia card then and run off the Intel graphics HDMI and see how that goes.

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@@softworkz Hi, apologies if I am being a nuisance but most of this is new to me.  I have enabled the onboard graphics and removed the Nvidia 1030.
 
I now get encoding capabilities which I did not with the Nvidia 1030, so win there.
 
However with the decoding I notice MPEG-2 Quicksync is un-ticked, should these be?
 
Am attching the default that came up with EMBY, could you advise if these are optimal ie right order etc

 

Thanks again for your help

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Yes, these entries are not enabled by default because there were often problems with that decoder in the past - unlike the DX11 decoder, which is using the same hardware but in a different way (e.g: the stream parsing is done by a MS implementation)

 

I wouldn't enable the QuickSync MPEG2 decoders right now. Leave it like it is for now, and after a while once you got everything running smoothly, you can try to experiment with this.

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