Is It Important that motherboard has a Video Card like Nvidia or Gigabyte?

[cajacontrol 4]

I have a cuestion, is necesary that my computer has a Video card like games video card or some powerful video card installed in my computer to feel a fast or super fast quality video transcoding?.

 

In this moment my intel board has not any video card and I fell the transcoding process its very slow to begin.

 

Thanks for your helps and repplies.

 

 

Ing. Adolfo Barbosa

[sh0rty 714]

I have a cuestion, is necesary that my computer has a Video card like games video card or some powerful video card installed in my computer to feel a fast or super fast quality video transcoding?.

 

In this moment my intel board has not any video card and I fell the transcoding process its very slow to begin.

 

Thanks for your helps and repplies.

 

 

Ing. Adolfo Barbosa

 

 

What are your specs? CPU type etc...?

 

Generally if you would like to use NVENC as hardware transcoding option, then go for a Nvidia Card. I use an GT730 and it performs very well on h264 and h265 for a cost of 67 € atm.

 

If you would like to use Quicksync hardware transcoding, then go for a newer MB with an actual Intel i CPU.

[cajacontrol 4]

My computer has a Intel Board + Intel Core i7 + 8 Ram Memory

windows 10 pro 64 bits

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Intel_mainboard_DX58SO_IMGP5949_wp_wp.jpg

 

Thanks 

[Bert 49]

Have you set hardware transcoding in Emby settings under transcoding?

[sh0rty 714]

Just enable Hardware Transcoding Quicksync in Transcoding Settings.

[Guest asrequested]

Which i7 do you have? They don't all have a gpu

[sh0rty 714]

@@cajacontrol

 

@ is right. Just looked at your picture. If it's your mainboard, then you probably have this CPU http://ark.intel.com/products/47933 , which does not support Quicksync. So HW transcoding is not possible with it, There are three options now:

 

1. Live with the current speeds

2. Use an Nvidia Card for HW transcoding

3. Upgrade CPU to at least a Sandy Bridge one (first HW Quicksync generation). But that would mean in your case that you need also upgrade your Mainboard to a fitting socket.

Edited March 4, 2017 by shorty1483

[Bert 49]

I believe you'll need at least a 3rd Generation to hardware transcode. I have a 2nd generation and quicksync won't work. I believe it has to do with no Windows 10 support.

[Bert 49]

 

 

I use an GT730 and it performs very well on h264 and h265 for a cost of 67 € atm.

 

I am considering buying this card, but want to make sure.  Is this the same model?

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-nvidia-geforce-gt-730-2gb-ddr3-pci-express-2-0-graphics-card-black/6164149.p?skuId=6164149

 

You'd buy this card again?  Think Best Buy is probably a bit overprice but return convenience may be worth it.

[player8472 2]

My server has a 16MB non-3d accelerated graphcs card which only Job it is to output the Ubuntu-Console.

 

So no, but I wouldn't activate HW-Accelerated Transcoding on it^^.

 

Without it, transcoding should be done by the CPU anyway...

 

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Your I7-970 should suffice for 3-4 parallel transcodes without a hitch.

But you CAN't activate HW-accelerated Transcoding since it doesn't support quicksync.

 

If you're running it as Home-Theater you should probably think about getting a new i5 with lower TDP though.

Running a 130W CPU 24/7 will be more expensive in the long run due to electricity.

[sh0rty 714]

 

I use an GT730 and it performs very well on h264 and h265 for a cost of 67 € atm.

 

I am considering buying this card, but want to make sure. Is this the same model?

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-nvidia-geforce-gt-730-2gb-ddr3-pci-express-2-0-graphics-card-black/6164149.p?skuId=6164149

 

You'd buy this card again? Think Best Buy is probably a bit overprice but return convenience may be worth it.

https://www.asus.com/de/Graphics-Cards/GT730SL2GD3BRK/

 

I have this one.

[cajacontrol 4]

Hi Felas. I purchase one GForce Nvidia GTX1050 pci Card. + 2 ram memory included

 

Now I use Nvidia Nvence trancoding and my computer now go so faster.

 

I test changing a 1080p movie in too many transcode options and the systems turns the change in 0,0001 seconds

 

Thans so much for your help

[bobhays 2]

What are your specs? CPU type etc...?

 

Generally if you would like to use NVENC as hardware transcoding option, then go for a Nvidia Card. I use an GT730 and it performs very well on h264 and h265 for a cost of 67 € atm.

 

If you would like to use Quicksync hardware transcoding, then go for a newer MB with an actual Intel i CPU.

What cpu do you have? cause the 730 doesn't support h.265 video AFAIK

[sh0rty 714]

What cpu do you have? cause the 730 doesn't support h.265 video AFAIK

 

CPU specs are in my sig, but it does not support Quicksync. I know that the 730 should not be able to do. But when I start a HEVC movie and e.g. play it in Chrome it works with nvenc enabled in Emby settings. This is the log:

Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=   32 fps=0.0 q=17.0 size=N/A time=00:00:01.81 bitrate=N/A speed=3.62x    
frame=   59 fps= 58 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:02.66 bitrate=N/A speed=2.64x    
frame=   86 fps= 57 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:03.92 bitrate=N/A speed= 2.6x    
frame=  113 fps= 56 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:05.14 bitrate=N/A speed=2.56x    

...

Should there be an error message du to the lack of HEVC support by the card? Or is the CPU doing the decoding part, and the 730 the encoding to h264 (really don't know if this splitting is even possible) @@Waldonnis  ?

Edited March 12, 2017 by shorty1483

[bobhays 2]

CPU specs are in my sig, but it does not support Quicksync. I know that the 730 should not be able to do. But when I start a HEVC movie and e.g. play it in Chrome it works with nvenc enabled in Emby settings. This is the log:

Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=   32 fps=0.0 q=17.0 size=N/A time=00:00:01.81 bitrate=N/A speed=3.62x    
frame=   59 fps= 58 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:02.66 bitrate=N/A speed=2.64x    
frame=   86 fps= 57 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:03.92 bitrate=N/A speed= 2.6x    
frame=  113 fps= 56 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:05.14 bitrate=N/A speed=2.56x    

...

Should there be an error message du to the lack of HEVC support by the card? Or is the CPU doing the decoding part, and the 730 the encoding to h264 (really don't know if this splitting is even possible) @@Waldonnis  ?

Could you post the ffmpeg log? I think your CPU might be doing the decoding and if it's able to handle it you wouldn't even notice that it's not your GPU.

[sh0rty 714]

Could you post the ffmpeg log? I think your CPU might be doing the decoding and if it's able to handle it you wouldn't even notice that it's not your GPU.

 

Somehow the GPU seems to be involved if I compare logs.

CPU.txt

NVENC.txt

[bobhays 2]

Somehow the GPU seems to be involved if I compare logs.

I think what's happening is when you enable NVENC it's using the cpu as decode and NVENC -> h.264. When using NVENC you gain ~30% performance compared to just CPU. That difference should be much higher if you were using the GPU for decoding as well depending on what speed you set the CPU encoding too.

 

In the logs I didn't find anything about the speed preset or the decoder, but maybe I missed it cause i'm a noob at reading these.

[bobhays 2]

CPU specs are in my sig, but it does not support Quicksync. I know that the 730 should not be able to do. But when I start a HEVC movie and e.g. play it in Chrome it works with nvenc enabled in Emby settings. This is the log:

Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (native) -> h264 (h264_nvenc))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (dts (dca) -> aac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame=   32 fps=0.0 q=17.0 size=N/A time=00:00:01.81 bitrate=N/A speed=3.62x    
frame=   59 fps= 58 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:02.66 bitrate=N/A speed=2.64x    
frame=   86 fps= 57 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:03.92 bitrate=N/A speed= 2.6x    
frame=  113 fps= 56 q=14.0 size=N/A time=00:00:05.14 bitrate=N/A speed=2.56x    

...

Should there be an error message du to the lack of HEVC support by the card? Or is the CPU doing the decoding part, and the 730 the encoding to h264 (really don't know if this splitting is even possible) @@Waldonnis  ?

Actually I think the answer is right here. The first line says hevc(native) so it's using the native decoder (CPU), and h264(h264_NVENC) is using NVENC encoder.

[RSG2017 0]

Hi Felas. I purchase one GForce Nvidia GTX1050 pci Card. + 2 ram memory included

 

Now I use Nvidia Nvence trancoding and my computer now go so faster.

 

I test changing a 1080p movie in too many transcode options and the systems turns the change in 0,0001 seconds

 

Thans so much for your help

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