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Very good pick up, thanks for watching and commenting!

Unfortunately i cant give you a definitive answer as to which one to use bc i dont know exactly. All i can say is that it looks like 1.5 mm to me. So you'll have to try 1.5mm and 1mm and see which one works.

The resizing doesn't really use the GPU for AV1 files, that's why the CPU topped out at 100% and the videos started to buffer. But using H264 the GPU does the decoding, resizing and encoding, putting a lot less demand on the CPU but higher load on the GPU. That was why the server/NAS could handle nine concurrent streams of the Under the Dome episodes (they were encoded using AV1) but far more concurrent episodes of The Wire that was encoded using H264. The H264 encoded files cause a bit more load on the GPU but far less on the CPU. As the GPU has support for H264 it is very efficient at both decoding and encoding these files, so the server/NAS can handle more concurrent users watching video. Direct play without resizing is the most efficient for the Server/NAS as it doesn't really need to do anything but serve the data without changing anything. Now different GPU have slightly different capabilities for this so a Nvidia, AMD or Intel GPU will differ. Intel is pretty good at this and even the integrated GPU in their processors supports what is called Quick Sync. This is pretty capable and can be improved by adding a second Intel GPU such as a A380. If I remember correctly it says in the intel website that adding a A380 to a computer that have an Intel processor with integrated GPU will increase encoding performance by 40%. the A380 is a pretty cheap card priced at about $120. If you need higher performance Intel has some more advanced cards such as the ARC Pro A40, A50 and A60 GPU. I have no idea about how the performance matches when compared to the A380 though. There's also a A310, though again I don't know anything about what performance can be expected considering video encoding performance compared to the A380 or the A580, A750 or A770. So hopefully others will know more. Now if you are looking at buiiding a server or NAS that will support Plex and it's only for your home and say three users you would probably be OK with a intel processors with integrated GPU. if you are looking at supporting a lot of users then adding a A380 or something like that will probably handle your needs.

This gpu doesnt support HDR tone mapping in Windows. Thanks for watching and commenting!

😂 That def would of done the trick. Ahhh man let us know what you think about it once you get it going!

No way buddy, best card you can get for Hackintosh is 6900/6950 XT. Thanks for watching and commenting! More Hackintosh content coming soon....

Ill work on that, thanks for watching and commenting!

No, but great idea, def need to do one lol. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Ill look into that, Thanks for watching and commenting!

Indeed

My tryout of the 6600 xt was so terrible that it left a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to amd products but ill give the 6400 a try. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thanks so much for this comment. Its statement like yours that gives me the drive to keep going with this type of content! How you like the 4060?

Interesting...How much TB do you think you'll recoup? Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@GeekShhh This guy did that: th-cam.com/video/1QXZYBeC0DU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ek2SZ6RvIyDCUHUn . If I recall correctly, he said around a 50% recoup - same quality.

Unfortunately i dodnt have a p2000 to compare. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hopfully it will come soon! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Very much true and yes, Bruce is a legend. Thanks for watching and commenting!

I believe you can add more than one key to accounts and add recovery methods as well, but yea def don’t want to lose them lol

No, Thank You! For watching and commenting!

Very nice set up. Did you find the Intel Arc to give you a massive uptick in performance? Also i have a video transcode test on my igpu(10400) on my channel if you want to see the difference. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@GeekShhh I did find better performance but i had to do a few things, one was use the intel preview build of plex that does hdr transcoding and by doing that i found out i was still on the 32bit build. Also going from the i3 9100 to the 17 9700t helped alot too not only with performance overall but with power consumtion too. After I posted that i went threw some of your other videos and was able to find the difference between the igpu and the arc. From your testing I think it was 7 transcodes for the igpu and 9 on the arc. Great stuff man. Really helped me with my plex experience. was starting not to like plex because i thought i was just limited to 1080p stuff but now i can 4k even with hdr, its back to being amazing.

forgot to add that i use a 16 ram drive using imDisk for the transcoding drive to save my ssd writes.

Please retype the question, thanks for watching and commenting!

@@GeekShhh if I only watch 1 movie at a time on Plex 4k I would also see some improvement compared to my old video card this is my pc AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor video card Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G RAM Kingston FURY Beast RGB 8GB 3200MHz DDR4

Direct Play is always the way to go, these are just to test the strength of gpu. Sucks TrueNas didnt add support for Arc yet. Sooner or later i guess they will. Yea, From is amazing. Thanks for watching and commenting!

LoL Only need it if its necessary

Check out my UHD630 transcode video on my channel. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Would these 4k->720p transcodes run lighter on the CPU with an A310 on a Linux system, like Unraid for example?

@@ConAnd81 Ill try that out soon but i believe i read somewhere that Linux doesnt support Intel Arc Av1 coding, im not sure though. Thanks for watching and commenting!

its been updated may10 is the latest build date. hdr tone mapping now works with arc and my 9th gen cpu.

I doubt that it will prevent that but not 100% sure. Thanks for watching and commenting

Def something that should be taken into consideration. The keys seem solid though. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Ill work on that, thanks for watching and commenting

LMAO VERY TRUE....Thanks for watching and commenting!

Not right. You should only use the hardware key as 2FA on the apps or sites, and delete other 2FA methods. It's safer because nobody can access the codes if not with the key. You didn't test enough fam.

@@jedih5288 I fell for all the hype. Bought 2, went to setup & 1st place I tried still needed phone. So I looked at site for who thises thing are for. I'm not on that list. maybe you work for google or something. Not me.

@@jedih5288 Agreed.

Never heard of gnupg keys but ill look into it, seems interesting. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Yea imma get to the nvidia cards soon, thanks for watching and commenting!

Interesting, no wonder companies are dumping them lol. May still be great for non active directory situations such as FB, Gmail, etc. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Ill look into that soon, thanks for watching and commenting!

Unfortunately I dont have access to those currently, sorry. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Have you done that?

When you say customer support......which company are you referring to?

Yes, my bank.

Your bank or credit card company's customer service. And that assumes they even allow these keys.

You got a shit bank mine uses voice recognition and in person requests for anything major

...Maybe because you still want to watch it locally in the original resolution and bitrate, but you may not have the bandwidth to stream that, and you don't want to store two copies of the same file to have one pre-transcoded? Maybe you also want your collection organized and to have access to an app to stream it on practically every device? Maybe you don't want to have to tunnel into your home network via a VPN to watch your content and don't want to have to deal with the hassle of setting up a reverse proxy to expose something to the web? Maybe you can't even host a local webserver due to ISP limitations (CG-NAT, for instance). I could go on and on. So, tell me which one is smarter or harder here.

if you lack bandwidth then just let it buffer on the device you want to stream it to, if you want to keep the original quality file only. otherwise just keep the 4K and the 1080p versions and even 720p, the lower resolution files are much smaller than the original. you can also use more aggressive compression on the secondary files etc. a non-issue.@@smokecrackhailsatan

@@gsestream Why on earth would you want to keep multiple copies of the same file around, when you can save yourself the space and just transcode it on the fly using whatever profile you want to? No response to any of the other more serious technical issues with just streaming over a home hosted web server, I see. Brain worms are real, apparently.

why would you want to need to use plex at all.@@smokecrackhailsatan

why do you think youtube uses static pre-transcoding instead of on-the-fly transcoding. ie all the formats are on a separate file.@@smokecrackhailsatan

LoL! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Yea im playing the videos and screen recording on my Hackintosh computer via Google Chrome and im using remote desktop to view the HWinFO on my dedicated Windows Plex server. When you see me go from the web browser to the Hwinfo, its essentially me switching computers. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@GeekShhh This can actually be another problem, as there are issues with RDP and plex transcode on intel devices as well. Better to just use the remote monitoring functionality in hwinfo for that.

That makes sense, thanks for watching and commenting!

Ahhh Ic, ill def look into that. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Huh ? Hardware transcoding for hdr tone mapping isn't currently supported only on windows using intel igpu/gpus, on linux it's fully supported for years now. (since february, there's a preview version that makes it work on windows for intel igpu from 11th gen and arc gpus)

Im not sure about that one but i would imagine so, Ill try it out one day and update you. Thanks for watching and commenting!