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I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server, right now I enjoy managing everything through UnRaid but I'm not opposed to another device that would manage p

I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server, right now I enjoy managing everything through UnRaid but I'm not opposed to another device that would manage plex alone. QuickSync is CRAZY good, I stumbled onto a post about it a month or so ago and thought "Ehh, I'm probably already using it, w/e" then saw I needed to run some commands and mount a device in my plex docker container to actually enable it and I was blown away by how little load there was on the CPU. I know there has been some grumbling about QS not producing the best output but that seems to be mainly related to the earlier iterations of it, I have not noticed any issues. It kills me how long I waited to try this, it literally took <10min to setup and has been a huge performance boost. To everyone else: If you have an Intel CPU that supports QS and you are running Plex in a docker container then I HIGHLY recommend you look into enabling HW acceleration (both in plex settings and by mounting a device, /dev/dri, into your container). Here [0] are the directions I followed. Make sure you read the instructions, the first time I tried to follow this I misread the instructions and thought my CPU didn't support it or there was some other issue but it couldn't have been easier when I actually stopped and read instead of skimming. [0] https://forums.unraid.net/topic/77943-guide-plex-hardware-acceleration-using-intel-quick-sync/ https://forums.unraid.net/topic/77943-guide-plex-hardware-ac...

lostlogin 6y ago
This is similar to my experience. There are some great guides on Reddit too. I found it a bit tricky in a VM as the ESXi default kept taking over and breaking it. I figured this out by poking about from within the container and discovered it had two GPUs and was picking the wrong one. Once I’d deleted the card VMware made (which means you can’t see the console in ESXi GUI interface, but can still ssh in) it all started working. As you say, it’ll do a lot of work, CPU usage is almost nil and I can’t see a quality issue. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/749hnc/hardware_transcoding_with_plex_docker/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/... > I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server Mine is more of a Docker host. Home Assistant absolutely flies on that hardware (it was previously on a Synology 918). It has a few other well used containers too - Wireguard, several Minecraft and some administrative tools. There are several testing machines for pfsense and some Linux machines I wanted to play with too.

lostlogin 6y ago

This is similar to my experience. There are some great guides on Reddit too. I found it a bit tricky in a VM as the ESXi default kept taking over and breaking it. I figured this out by poking about from within the container and discovered it had two GPUs and was picking the wrong one. Once I’d deleted the card VMware made (which means you can’t see the console in ESXi GUI interface, but can still ssh in) it all started working. As you say, it’ll do a lot of work, CPU usage is almost nil and I can’t see a quality issue. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/749hnc/hardware_transcoding_with_plex_docker/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/... > I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server Mine is more of a Docker host. Home Assistant absolutely flies on that hardware (it was previously on a Synology 918). It has a few other well used containers too - Wireguard, several Minecraft and some administrative tools. There are several testing machines for pfsense and some Linux machines I wanted to play with too.