Best/least expensive GPU for decent Plex transcoding? - eviltoast

I’m looking to move from a Synology NAS with Plex to get something dedicated that is more powerful/can do more transcoding streams at once.

What is everyone using and how many streams can you transcode at once?

  • TwinTurbo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is also an other approach: encode your media a priori into a format that you can play direct, and then you don’t have to worry about transcoding performance. The advantage of this is that you can likely get better quality encodes.

    • WestyFlyer@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s basically what I’ve been doing using Other Transcode. My concern was that if I have a 4K source and using that would I someday regret it and want to re-encode things?