Today we're going to show you how to tune your Plex and how to use RAM transcoding to write data to your RAM rather than your array in Unraid. Plex Media Server is a powerful beast for your home media server or NAS, but it has some untold truths on fine-tuning and getting the best performance. I’m David Harry, thank you very much for watching this video, take care and goodbye now. I always try to be fair and balanced with my reviews but will always make it very clear if I find any issues with any products that I use or review.Ĭontact me for product reviews, I do not respond to email requests for help or advice. Other than technical input that may be useful to the viewer, I never accept any input from anyone who sends me products for my reviews.
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I will also be doing speed tests comparing the Mac Mini M1 VS Panther Canyon i7 NUC11PAHi7 in both software CPU speed testing using X265 as the encoding codec. The computer being used is the latest 11th Gen Intel NUC i7 Panther Canyon NUC11PAHi7 with its DG1 Xe graphics.
Again using 1080P 24FPS source file and outputting encoding to HEVC H.265 MP4 at 1080 24P using the new Intel Quick Sync Video or Intel QSV engine on the DG1 based Xe graphics engine. This latest Intel Quick Sync Video on the DG1 Xe graphics processor is the first to be able to encode at 8K.Īs an extra Handbrake encode speed test I also do a 1080P 24FPS or 24P video encode. These latest Xe graphics are based on the Intel DG1 graphics processing unit or GPU graphics card. The version of Intel Quick Sync Video being used here is the latest one found on Intel Iris Xe graphics cards, or built in iGPU integrated graphics processing unit. Inside Handbrake I'm using Intel's Quick Sync Video to encode to HEVC H.265 MP4 at 8K 60 frames per second. I'm encoding an 8K 60FPS source video file using Handbrake. In this video I'm doing an encoding speed test. Handbrake encoding 8K 60FPS HEVC H.265 MP4 video - Quick Sync Video Intel Iris Xe DG-1 speed testĠ0:00 Intro and explanation for this videoĠ6:18 Results of the 1080P 24FPS encoding Thank you to all my subscribers and viewers!ĭisclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My Canon EOS Rebel T7i Camera and Lens (Kit) ► □ #Plex #MediaServer #QuickSyncġ0:24 Epilogue: What Manner of Sorcery Be This? Since hardware transcoding is a paid feature of Plex, you will need Plex Pass if you'd like to replicate the testing on your end.
But I won't stop at just one window - I'll have 18 instances of Brave on one screen, each playing a unique video from the Plex server. I'll start off by running a Plex web player in a Brave browser window.
I will be monitoring the dashboard statistics such as the CPU, memory and network usage, and Plex's Now Playing section. The Plex Media Server resides on a machine with Linux Ubuntu Desktop version 20.04, running on a ninth-generation Intel Core i5-9400 mounted on a Gigabyte B365M DS3H motherboard. In this video, I try to run as many 1080p videos from a Plex Media Server as possible to see how well Plex's hardware accelerated transcoding performs on Intel's Quick Sync.