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Animal posted:Great for re-encoding a bunch of TV shows and saving a lot of space. IDark scenes can end up crushed but who cares on stuff like Full House and Fresh Prince of Bel Air when it’s turning files from 1gb to 300mb and keeping about 90% of the quality. Animation doesn’t seem to lose almost anything with the conversion. i was considering getting that but i wasnt sure if it was compatible with my 2600x
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Worf posted:i was considering getting that but i wasnt sure if it was compatible with my 2600x Edit: if your board supports ReBar, AMD will call it Smart Access Memory. I just Googled and it does appear that under certain circumstances lack of ReBar could be detrimental for GPU encoding so I'm gonna retract what I said before. If your board does support ReBar (Smart Access Memory) then definitely get Arc. Animal fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Apr 16, 2025 |
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alright thank you all, i have enough information to take a better look at what i should do with this
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Or get an additional hdd and get more free space than useless reencoding.
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CatHorse posted:Or get an additional hdd and get more free space than useless reencoding. ill probably have to do this anyway, are people just grabbing 16 TB spinners for this now and calling it a day? do you buy them used?
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Worf posted:ill probably have to do this anyway, are people just grabbing 16 TB spinners for this now and calling it a day? do you buy them used? https://serverpartdeals.com/
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oh very cool tyvm i'm not much of a hoarder and mainly want to be able to stream star trek and all that 80s/90s poo poo, but so far i'm exclusively using older hardware i had laying around from previous builds and the case i have is somewhat small, so i want to get a higher capacity drive just because itll actually fit. i like the small case though because i can keep it tucked away etc, and it can still fit three 3.5 inch drives. if at any point i grow beyond that, the thing will be justifying its own existence by the very nature of that problem anyway and i can upgrade the case or whatever else. the biggest unfortunate part of it all is that none of the pieces were really designed with power efficiency in mind. i can probably tune the CPU to use less, and at least the GTX 1060 in there idles decently low Worf fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Apr 16, 2025 |
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Prices are a little high right now. If you can wait, there should be cheaper drives for sale at the end of the year. That's when data centers tend to clear out their older drives.
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Animal posted:
With ReBar off, my Arc GPU in Handbrake (via Unraid) resulted in normal encoding speeds but numerous random crashes. handbrake would freeze up and I would have to reset the docker, try again, and there was a 3/4 chance it would freeze up again. It was pretty much unusable given how many files couldn’t even finish encoding. Problem went completely away when I turned ReBar on. I’ve so far reclaimed 7.5TB of space from tv shows alone by going AV1. All players I use besides OS plays them natively. Sure I could buy more drives but I’m running low on available spots in my tower so I don’t want to deal with problem until I absolutely have to.
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because i'm mainly just making my setup for myself, i dont have any pressing need to leave the system running 24/7. wake on lan is easy enough to setup, but do any of you have any recommendations on how to prevent the system from suspending while its streaming (without shutting off sleep options) i'm open to the idea of a sleep on lan dark magic packet if such a thing exists and thus i do it manually. i just think its overkill to leave the thing running 24/7 for my needs. a level of automation would be preferable though (its running on a w11 pro machine)
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CatHorse posted:Or get an additional hdd and get more free space than useless reencoding. I think reencoding on your own hardware is kinda a waste of electricity but I managed to turn 3.5tb of media into 2.5tb of media with a ton of additional shows and films just by actually getting sonarr and radarr grabbing stuff in x265 to replace x264 files. All it cost me was maxing out my api calls on a single indexer for a few days.
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Laserface posted:
I did exactly this and with just a few shows i gained over 1TB of storage back as well. I still expanded my pool by 30TB after the fact, but now I have it setup to grab x265. quality and device support of 265 if far more broader than it used to be and the storage savings is substantial when you are talking multi season shows.
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I feel like I need AppleTV’s plex app to not suck before I can do that.
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Even my old gen 1 4K AppleTV has no issues with h265 1080p in the official app. 4K is a lot better than before too, but I’m waiting for HDR10+ still.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Even my old gen 1 4K AppleTV has no issues with h265 1080p in the official app. 4K is a lot better than before too, but I’m waiting for HDR10+ still. The siri button remote refresh of the 4k does HDR10+ (2022 Apple TV 4K )
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The hardware does, but Plex lost their main iOS dev and they never implemented it. E: annoyingly TRaSH has a spreadsheet saying it’s supported on 3rd gen in Plex, but I haven’t found anything else saying this. I’ll dig through the threads of people talking about the lack of support and see if anything eventually comes up. E2: looks like TRaSH is wrong. Even as of a day ago the plex forum thread is still scratching its head as to why it’s not supported even with the new app rolling out. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 18, 2025 |
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One day the PlayStation plex app will work. One day.
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Weird, always works great for me, mostly on PS4 so don't know about PS5.
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It's total garbage. See my posts a couple years back where I spent weeks troubleshooting my Plex Server and PS5 only to fix it all instantly by moving to a Shield for playback.
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derk posted:
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Nfcknblvbl posted:FTFY 
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PSN is raising prices so I'm selling my PS4. I only got it because it has a blue ray drive, which I don't need since I have Plex.
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cruft posted:Symfonium seems pretty cool Symfonium is very cool. I had already ditched my dedicated Android DAP with Neutron Music Player for PlexAmp, and Symfonium gives me back all the features Neutron had that PlexAmp lacked, like an expanded EQ, a better stereo-to-binaural DSP and an updated autoEQ library that had a setting for the pair of IEMs I own. It's very customizable, very snappy, and you can customize it so that it's easier to navigate larger libraries than it is with PlexAmp. I ran into a few little bugs early on but they got quashed or someone found a workaround. Good app. Hellequin fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Apr 22, 2025 |
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Hellequin posted:Symfonium is very cool. I had already ditched my dedicated Android DAP with Neutron Music Player for PlexAmp, and Symfonium gives me back all the features Neutron had that PlexAmp lacked, like an expanded EQ, a better stereo-to-binaural DSP and an updated autoEQ library that had a setting for the pair of IEMs I own. It's very customizable, very snappy, and you can customize it so that it's easier to navigate larger libraries than it is with PlexAmp. I ran into a few little bugs early on but they got quashed or someone found a workaround. Good app. It also attaches to my Jellyfin server, giving me an experience roughly equivalent to what I had with PlexAmp. I wish I could pay for it through the Android store, instead of each family member having to buy their own license, but whatever. It also allows me to Chromecast music, which no other app did, for some reason. I bet cloud services are involved somehow, sigh.
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cruft posted:It also allows me to Chromecast music, which no other app did, for some reason. I bet cloud services are involved somehow, sigh. This is what got me using it to begin with. I have several zones of "whole home audio" driven by the delightfully basic/not network connected Monoproce 6 zone amp (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10761). I attached a rasberry pi running Volumio with a DAC hat to this as an input source, but since Volumio is terrible I just use it as an airplay/chromecast target for Symfomium. Fortunately, the home assistant plugin for it supports being used this way and will show current song playing and let you skip/go back/whatever. (I'm in the market for a better thing to run on the pi).
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Motronic posted:This is what got me using it to begin with. I have several zones of "whole home audio" driven by the delightfully basic/not network connected Monoproce 6 zone amp (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10761). I attached a rasberry pi running Volumio with a DAC hat to this as an input source, but since Volumio is terrible I just use it as an airplay/chromecast target for Symfomium. Fortunately, the home assistant plugin for it supports being used this way and will show current song playing and let you skip/go back/whatever. (I'm in the market for a better thing to run on the pi). Huh, neat. This house came pre-wired with three audio zones: family room, kitchen, and basement. If my souring on proprietary wireless casting continues to sour, something like that setup might be a good option. I'll probably only remember that you did something with it, though. So apologies in advance if 2 years from now I ask you to tell me again how you've got things set up.
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Motronic posted:This is what got me using it to begin with. I have several zones of "whole home audio" driven by the delightfully basic/not network connected Monoproce 6 zone amp (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10761). I attached a rasberry pi running Volumio with a DAC hat to this as an input source, but since Volumio is terrible I just use it as an airplay/chromecast target for Symfomium. Fortunately, the home assistant plugin for it supports being used this way and will show current song playing and let you skip/go back/whatever. (I'm in the market for a better thing to run on the pi). Volumio is fine in my experience, plays FLAC/WAV off my server without issues. The Spotify plugin is the problem I have with it.
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Motronic posted:This is what got me using it to begin with. I have several zones of "whole home audio" driven by the delightfully basic/not network connected Monoproce 6 zone amp (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10761). I attached a rasberry pi running Volumio with a DAC hat to this as an input source, but since Volumio is terrible I just use it as an airplay/chromecast target for Symfomium. Fortunately, the home assistant plugin for it supports being used this way and will show current song playing and let you skip/go back/whatever. (I'm in the market for a better thing to run on the pi). Try moode audio.
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The_Doctor posted:
yeah i'm getting all sorts of stuttering on random files that work everywhere else. direct play, definitely enough bandwidth, but still stuttering on the phone. Infuse at the same bandwidth also direct play works fine 
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How big is your library? Just asking for my own curiosity, not at all trying to suggest you're doing something wrong.
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Laserface posted:How big is your library? Just asking for my own curiosity, not at all trying to suggest you're doing something wrong. Im just over 17,000 individual tracks at this point. It crushes a Pi 2 trying to do a volumio library scan.
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A few months ago people, I think here, were discussing an audiobook type of thing similar to Plex. Does anybody know what the name of that might be? Appreciate it.
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Motronic posted:Im just over 17,000 individual tracks at this point. It crushes a Pi 2 trying to do a volumio library scan. I'm on a Pi 4 and only have 283 albums so I think I'll be ok for a while!
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Burden posted:Maybe Audio Bookshelf? Yeah likely ABS which is pretty darn good, or Prologue which is a client app for iPhone which makes audiobook hosting on plex itself a bit better. ABS is the superior choice though, and podcast rehosting is super useful.
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