Hardware for Transcoding multiple HD Streams

[acnp77 67]

I am running my emby server (debian 8) on a HP Proliant microserver, Intel XEON E3,-1220L v2 2.3 GHz dual-core as a virtualmachine on a esxi 6.5 host. I gave it 2GM of RAM.

There a a couple of other servers running on the host too, but nothing that takes up a lot of resources.

 

The performance is not to my satisfaction. The webinterface loads quite slow, sometimes it takes a long time for a movie to start and I can not transcode HD Movies for multiple users (2-3) at the same time.

 

I have a spare HP Z240 Workstation with 16 GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro K2200, and a Xeon E3-1240 v5 quadcore at 3.5 GHz and SSD.

 

The movies would stay on the fileserver and be accessed over SMB in a gigabit ethernet.

 

Would you think it would be worth it to use this machine as a emby-server? Would this speed things up? or could emby-server not take advantage of the higher specs?

 

CHEERS

[maegibbons 1287]

Hi

 

Emby and ffmpeg will always make use of more cores and you should see good benefit especially because of the the incresed clock speed as well.

 

More RAM can also be a benefit for multiple transcodes.

 

Krs

 

Mark

[CBers 7450]

In what circumstances do you need to have your playback transcoded?

[acnp77 67]

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly. But I need the playback transcoded for 2-3 users (familiy members) that playback content in the browser or with ipads. In general always when network speed or player capabilities are not sufficient.

cheers

 

EDIT:

Many of my movies have quite high bitrates (around 25mbps, or about half of a retail bluray) and my current setup can just about transcode 1 stream.

Edited October 22, 2017 by acnp77

[CBers 7450]

Just wondered why you needed content transcoding.

 

Isn't the source playable natively on the recipient devices?

 

Are they in your home, or remote?

 

Just being nosey really

[acnp77 67]

that´s ok

 

Some content is playable natively on remote kodi clients.

Some content is being played in remote browser and can not be played natively

 

EDIT: It is not really important, I am just trying to find a purpose for my spare HP Z240 Workstation.

Edited October 22, 2017 by acnp77