Trying to verify my understanding of transcoders

[Lyfesaver 139]

My own ignorance is often my biggest hill to climb so I want to be sure that this means that in no way what-so-ever that Emby will leverage my 5090

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[Lyfesaver 139]

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[Lyfesaver 139]

Sorry for the multiple posts but I was copying images from my Discord and pasting them here and it was not working. Took news one posted in first post

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[RanmaCanada 544]

As long as your 5090 is not selected, Emby should absolutely refuse to use it. Though I do question why you have 2 copies of the uhd 770 listed.

[Luke 42555]

What did you end up trying?

[Lyfesaver 139]

On 5/25/2026 at 3:48 PM, Luke said:

What did you end up trying?

Ahh, thanks for checking in, Luke

Honestly..... I have given up! 

Now, don't think I have given up on Emby, I can't see that happening any time soon if ever at all. I have given up on Windows. Why? Well because when I started all this I was way more ignorant than I am today. I know, hard to believe but it's true. Forgive this wall of text.

Since 2014 when I started using "Media Browser" as a standalone app, I had 2 HDDs in my Windows 7 PC. Since then I have just been adding more HDDs (not raided) and upgrading Windows until I reached the 12 HDD Windows 11 microslop mess I am in today. 

This has to be the reasons behind my "dual copies" of my on board GPU. You might remember (thought doubt you do as you see thousands of posts a year) that I have had the dual iGPU issue for years. 

So what did I end up trying?
1. Moved the RTX 5090 to new server box on an ASUS Z790 Prime V-AX with a 14900K, 96GB DDR5 6400 and a Samsung 9100
2. Put the Arc A750 back into the Window 11 messy "server"
3. Took my old Z170 with a 7700K and 16GB of DDR4, Supermicro 16-Port 12Gb/s SAS HBA and a 5Gbps NIC into a new Jonsbo N5 running Unraid
4. [In process] moving one drive at a time over to the NAS. Estimated 5-6 more days of copying (This allows me to keep 90% of my Emby media accessible at any given time)
5. [Up next] Backup/export as much of the Emby data that I can.
6. [After that] Wipe the 12900K/64GB DDR5 Windows 11, install my dockers back and then import my Emby data

This should fix any all issues and make everything just "better" in every sense/ The only "unknown" at this point is what I can export during step 5

Sorry for the info dump  but again, thanks for checking in

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fixing typos

[Luke 42555]

Please let us know how things go. Thanks.

[Lyfesaver 139]

12 minutes ago, Luke said:

Please let us know how things go. Thanks.

Thanks. OoC, are there any guides on moving from Emby Windows to Linux and keeping as much user/system/media data as possible in the process?

[TMCsw 275]

5 hours ago, Lyfesaver said:

are there any guides on moving from Emby Windows to Linux and keeping as much user/system/media data as possible in the process?

I haven't seen any, but make sure you save everything into media folders before scanning in Linux ie:

It will still require a scan because of the path changes, but should go quickly (DON'T ENABLE INTRO DETECTION until later, as this will take a long time)

Forgot to mention, you can use Backup & Restore to restore your user played status

Edited June 1 by TMCsw