2024-09-12, 03:30 PM
(2024-09-04, 04:48 PM)Efficient_Good_5784 Wrote: I would offer a third option. You can build a new server and install an Intel ARC GPU. They're really good for transcoding content and you can find some for relatively cheap prices.
This was definitely the right solution. My new server can transcode 3 remux 4k/HDR -> 4K/SDR movies, one with burned in subtitles - but since I mount the Synology via NFS for the media, I fully saturate my gigabit ethernet connection, which is my next bottleneck.
Oh, and if anyone else buys one of these cheap refurb HP Victus 15L's, they're decent systems... but HP locks you out of advanced settings in BIOS, so you can't disable the UHD 730. This didn't bother me, as I planned to use docker anyway, and you can pass in just renderD129, which is the ARC380.
Thanks again!