As if the Prime Video app couldn’t get any worse.

  • @kakes
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    726 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve got a full *arr setup so far - just need to iron out a few kinks before I can consider it “done”. Mainly just dealing with my server computer being incredibly slow with - I assume - transcoding.

    • @[email protected]
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      526 days ago

      If you’re steaming on your local network you should be able to disable transcoding on your clients.

      • @kakes
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        225 days ago

        Ahh, I didn’t know that was an option. I’ll give it a shot - thanks!

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      26 days ago

      Man for me it’s the iGPU via Intel.

      I have an i3 with an Intel IGPU and it’ll murder any transcode I throw at it.

      If you don’t want to rebuild… I think a quadro 2000? Is the sweet spot for cost vrs power.

      But do your own research… I’m really rusty when it comes to suggesting gpus for servers.

      https://www.serverbuilds.net/ is a great resource for that stuff. They have handy transcode guides there

      • @kakes
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        226 days ago

        Sadly, my current server is an old all-in-one, so adding a GPU will be difficult. My plan is to make due for now until I can get some proper hardware.

        The current plan is - rather than bringing the hardware up to spec - I’ll try bringing the spec down to the hardware, by pre-encoding everything to something like H264. (While keeping originals, since I have the space.)

        Thank you for the response and the resource, though! I’ll definitely check it out!

        • @[email protected]
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          426 days ago

          When my server crashes… I’m going tiny. Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N100(up to 3.4GHz), 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB PCIe SSD, Desktop Computer Support 4K Dual Display/USB3.2/WiFi 6/BT5.2/Gigabit Ethernet for Home/Office https://a.co/d/gZYihvd

          And a 3.2 enclosure

          Mediasonic USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure – USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type C | USB-C (HF7-SU31C) Support 18TB HDD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YQHWYW

          And you’re welcome!

          Good luck!