I want to host security cameras and a plex server. Does this mean that my server needs a GPU? (Or would benefit from one). I heard plex does fine with just a CPU

  • Still-Snow-3743@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have found transcoding to work noticeably better when using quicksync (the intel chip native encoder) rather than a GPU.

    At this point, I think the only real reason you would want a GPU is for LLMs.

  • jerwong@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I use Jellyfin which is similar to Plex. I have it on a Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB. It’s perfectly fine if I’m sending H264 but most modern browsers do not support H265 so it forces the server to transcode. That will consume almost all processing power if it’s CPU-only and is a very slow process.

    • Krieg@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      As long as you have Plex Pass, hardware transcoding is extremely good with moder QuickSync Intel processors, and specially good if you run Linux.

  • DarkKnyt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have two GPUs in a single tower.

    A GTX 750 to that I share with my LXCs. It does jellyfin transcode, frigate nvr for 3 cameras, kasm accelerated desktops, xfce4 pve host acceleration, Jupyter tensorflow, ersatz tv transcode, and I plan to use it for immich. At most it is taxed about 25 percent but I plan to have a lot more nvr and jellyfin streams.

    I also have a 1660 ti passed to windows 11 VM for my gaming VM. I use sunshine and moonlight for remote gaming but I also roll easy diffusion for some image generation. I had an LLM but (https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) but it was too slow for what I’m used to - I just use bing chat and now meta on whatsapp for my personal and an LLM I have access to at work.