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Not sure if you are trolling. Hardware transcoding is available with modern GPU:s.
by aew4ytasghe5 4y ago
Not sure if you are trolling.
Hardware transcoding is available with modern GPU:s.
- dylan604 4y agonot trolling at all. i just don't think of the GPU as that. probably silly on my part, but as stated, i come from the world of expensive dedicated encoding devices vs generic parts of a computer you already have.
- gardnr 4y agoEDIT: Looks like QSV is the new transcoding api for Intel CPUs. My info was out of date. VAAPI is in Intel chips: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/linuxmedia-vaapi.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... It represents parts of the CPU optimized to transcode video. The newer CPUs support HEVC/h265 which would otherwise introduce a huge load on a machine when done in a normal CPU. Having the "hardware transcoder" as part of the chip means you can transcode huge videos without consuming huge amounts of system resources. Jellyfin includes this, or more accurately exposes the ffmpeg implementation of this, whereas Plex charges for it.
- Vrondi 4y agoSure, it is available, but _why_? For years and years now, even low end devices are perfectly capable of playing media over a network without transcoding being required? Why do people think they need transcoding? Are they streaming to ancient video game consoles from their PCs? I mean, it was helpful when I was streaming to a PS2, but that's a long time ago, now.