Hardware acceleration - what to choose?

[nedokot 0]

Hello! I experience problems with transcoding the large 1080p and 2160p mkv files playing on apple TV 4K with emby app, especially the dark scenes, and think of using hardware acceleration. Could you please suggest what is the best option and which kind of hardware would work best?

 

My server specs as following:

MB: ASUS RS160-S5/PX4

CPU: Intel Xeon E5450 3Ghz x2 (8 cores in total)

RAM: 16GB DDR2 667MHz FBDIMM

Disk Array Huawei OceanStor S2300 connected via LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e controller

OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

 

Thanks in advance!

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Check the emby hardware subforum - lots of threads on this

 

also your cpu does not have quicksync - so software decoding/encoding only on the cpu

 

so gpu card is your best bet

 

although being on 2012r2 may present its own challenges with drivers - so you need to check that out

[nedokot 0]

Thanks! Will try GeForce GTX 1050 gpu and see if it helps

[Guest]

Thanks! Will try GeForce GTX 1050 gpu and see if it helps

p400 off ebay ($70) with the driver patch is the best bang for your buck

 

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix

 

https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win

[nedokot 0]

Thanks! Will try it