Hello guys, I have tried to host Plex, Jellyfin, Emby all of them but somehow the video buffers and lags when more than 2 people watch this. I am trying to understand whether my current setup can run this, specifically if CPU can handle it or I need a GPU here.
Current Server Specifications: Dell Poweredge R720 CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 RAM - 344GB DDR3 OS - Proxmox GPU - None
I have tried all the 3 media servers and mostly Emby was very efficient and was able to handle 3 simultaneous 1080p streams. But both plex and jellyfin at most could handle 2 streams. I don’t have much idea on Transcoding as well. I saw that ZimaBoard and even small SingleBoard PCs can run media server. I wanted to understand what I am doing wrong here with these specs. I usually enable Transcoding and leave it. Also, I ran all of these in Docker with Intel QuickSync selected in Transcoding menu.
Thanks for any suggestions :)
What you’re doing wrong is using an old server without any kind of hardware assist.
What are you trying to accomplish here? How many simultaneous transcodes? Any 4K? If you have subs, are they all SRT?
I’m using a r720xd with a p2000. When I first started I just had the CPU to encode with. What I found helped was setting a lower bit rate limit which allowed the CPU to transcode it fast enough.
Once I got a p400 that helped, but limits to 3 transcodes hurt the overall use since I would possibly have more than three hitting it at once. That’s when the p2000 came along.
Bandwidth is important as well, so I still limit outside connections to 5mbps.