Is anyone hardware transcoding in Hyper-V on 2016?

[Ray 4]

I use old retired server hardware for home use.  After having constant issues of Emby crashing on me when exposed to the internet, I figured I'd just virtualize and run an instance in Windows 10 for internal and an instance for external.  Windows 10 since I have more than a few Windows 7 keys from retired systems, and the upgrade to Windows 10 Pro at install with the 7 key works just fine.  The host is a 32 core (quad E5-2680 CPU, 8 cores, 64 logical processors) Running Windows 2016 Standard.  I don't want to run Emby on Server OS since Standard doesn't come with unlimited VM keys.  The internal Emby is using vhdx drives on SSDs, and dynamic RAM that never even close to hits the pysical limits.  I have other things on the host, so I can't use more than half of the resources for Emby.  At 8 virtual cores I get a lot of lag trying to play 4k content over LAN to 1080p devices.  Has anyone had much luck in using hardware encoding via RemoteFX?  Or is there a better way to get the system able to transcode 4k content to 1080p with limited resources?  I have a hard limit of 16 virtual cores I can use, but I'd like that to be split on two machines, not a single if possible.  At least that way if something does go sideways I have an already-running Emby backup.

 

I do NOT yet have the video card for this.  The former Emby machine is now a desktop so the video card I was using is now in use by the kids.  I can buy any (cheap-ish) video card that would support the hardware encoding if this is an option in Hyper-V.  For reference, movies and shows are on a different Windows share, but with 10Gbit LAN I'm not coming close to maxing the resources there.  In the event I can't hardware transcode I can just live with not being able to watch 4k content on non-4k devices if needed.  But of course it would be better if I could.  My limit on this is a 3 figure price tag for Emby.  If any solution goes from hundreds to over the thousand mark then I'll just make do with what is in place.  (In CAD, so in the range of $600-750 USD.)

 

As a side question, I assume this will require a second Premier key for the second Emby when I set it up.  Does anyone know if that's accurate, or can you run two machines with the same key if it's two VMs, on a single host for this sort of purpose?

[arche 177]

Can't really help much, but this may answer your last question https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Can-I-use-my-Emby-Premiere-key-on-more-than-one-server

[rbjtech 5284]

-deleted-

Edited May 4, 2019 by rbjtech