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Transcode hardwre - Fred Weigel - 2025-04-11
I am using Jellyfin 10.10.6 on a Cisco Systems Inc UCSC-C240-M4L,
Currently 128GB RAM dual xeon 48 core.
Currently, 8TB of media. Another 16TB of ripped bluray and dvd raw for total 24TB of storage uses.
100TB total storage (10x10TB SAS drives)
I have been using software transcode. Fine for now (10 users).
I want to play with hardware transcode - what hardware should I install? Is a Tesla K80 suitable?
Would I get 19 to 20 concurrent real-time transcodes?
Thanks,
-Fred
RE: Transcode hardwre - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-11
The Kepler generation is very much dated for encoding. From the Nvidia side, nothing prior to Pascal is worth considering.
If you don't need HDR to SDR tone mapping, pretty much any Nvidia GPU will do. On GPUs with concurrent stream limits, you would need to patch the driver to remove the limit. Nvidia's NVENC table lists which GPUs have limits.
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new