Intel A310

[@quantumjank3091]

Been waiting to see a LP Intel card for transcoding but also gaming since launch. Perfect way to re-purpose those left-over slim business PCs that still have a PCI-E slot. Either as a server and/or a gamin PC for kids who don't need high-end graphics. Respect to Bruce Willis here too man, nice of you to give him a shout-out.

[@GeekShhh]

Very much true and yes, Bruce is a legend. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@KaldekBoch]

Cheers mate, I just picked up the same card to replace my Quadro P400 that's been the Plex transcoding workhorse for the last few years. Great little card, can't wait to compare power usage. My only holdup is that Plex is a Docker container on unRAID and I need to commit to running the unRAID 7 beta as that's the first one with Intel ARC support in the kernel.

[@revinerd]

Direct to the point. Great video man. Thanks

[@GeekShhh]

I try to make it as short as possible. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

[@revinerd]

@GeekShhh I bought it to day for my plex server (amd plataform); previusly y had a rtx 3070 but for some reaseon I could not make plex and casaos hardware transcode; just installed the A310 and worked like a charm, exactly the way you concluded in your video, 5 streams 4k to 720 P; in the sixth the problems beggun but with five it is fine with me; thans again.

[@GeekShhh]

@@revinerd Thanks for letting us know, Enjoy!

[@andrewbroadfort6856]

Very interesting. AV1 examples would be great to see in a future video.

[@GeekShhh]

Im working on it, I dont have many AV1 files but im trying to get some for the future. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@musicjewell9329]

Eh might be hard with yt compression

[@ScottGrammer]

This was EXACTLY what I needed to see. I just built a Plex server, with an i3 12100, and its transcoding is not the best I've ever seen. Was thinking of adding an a310, so I'm going to enjoy this video! Unfortunately, it looks like the Plex server does not use Intel Deep Link technology, which allows and Intel iGPU to work together with an Intel Arc GPU when transcoding.

[@GeekShhh]

i3-12100 has the 2nd best igpu that Intel makes which is the UHD 730. This is a very powerful igpu and is even more powerful than the A310. For you to utilize the igpu you have to have the plex pass. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@ScottGrammer]

@@GeekShhh i do have the plex pass. I but I keep seeing small artifacts in the transcoded video that I know are not in the original files. It may be that I don't have the settings right. I'm very new to plex.

[@GeekShhh]

@@ScottGrammerwhich OS are you using for your server?

[@ScottGrammer]

@@GeekShhh Windows 10 pro.

[@GeekShhh]

@@ScottGrammer Ok download HWinfo so you can see what your cpu and igpu are doing when you try to transcode.

[@cjmoss51]

Fantastic! Please do this with RX 6400 and integreated AMD Radeon Chips. I cant find anyone else on YT willing to do these tests. Being able to know which one is best and how well they function are great pieces of info.

[@kekistanifreedomfighter4197]

The 6400 doesn't have an AMF video engine on die. It's pretty much only a 3d accelerator for laptops which have an APU with video encode/decode on it's own iGPU.

[@GeekShhh]

I tried doing the 6600 XT and it was a huge failure and waste of time so im kind of staying away from the AMDs 😩. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@narniaphuket]

McCaulay Culkin is a very prolific actor these days, especially in the horror scene

[@zues121510]

Was expecting a bit more, people online generally get like 10 transcodes working at a time even on iGPU. Strange.

[@j0nrages]

This is great. Do you have a video on Blu-ray ripping or getting 4k content for your Plex server?

[@GeekShhh]

No sir, however one gets his or her content is between that party and their lawyer 😂 Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@AdamsNormand]

Thank you, very instructive content

[@GeekShhh]

I really appreciate this, Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

[@AdamsNormand]

@@GeekShhh do you have estimated the number of simultaneous 1080p transcoding that can be done?

[@GeekShhh]

@@AdamsNormand Unfortunately no because i feel like all should handle 10+ but ill test it out on future videos. Sorry bout that.

[@AdamsNormand]

@@GeekShhh don't be sorry, it's already huge. My Plex contain mixed content, some 4K for spectacular movies, 1080p for move modest films and TV shows. So I'm curious to estimate how much it can handle in a full 1080p scenario

[@AnkushNarula]

Did you notice your Plex server’s settings was set to 5 max simultaneous transcodes?

[@GeekShhh]

3:02 Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@millercentral]

For the HDR videos, why didn't you enable the "HDR Tonemapping" section in the transcoder settings? It seems like this would be a better test as it will use the OpenCL stress VRAM on the GPU during the transcode...

[@GeekShhh]

This gpu doesnt support HDR tone mapping in Windows. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@youtuberconsuming6411]

1 gigabit internet, not 1 gigabyte internet. network speeds are measured in bits per second, not bytes. 1 gigabit per second is roughly 110megaBYTES per second, which, as you may note, is much less than 1 gigabyte.

[@GeekShhh]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@LazeX7]

When you go to dashboard and hover over a movie being watched, you can see little screenshots. My doesn't do that...

[@GeekShhh]

Its called Video Preview Thumbnail and you can enable it in settings. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@boro057]

Glory. Classic. Sixth Sense. Classic. 90’s X-Men. Classic. First Blood. Classic.

[@GeekShhh]

indeed, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@_mike]

It got me confused when you kept saying iGPU, lol. It's dGPU ("i" stands for integrated, "d" - discrete). Nice video, though.

[@GeekShhh]

In HWinfo 'GPU media Engine Usage' is for the iGPU. We werent using the igpu so it always showed 0 activity. I was just reminding people that we werent using it this time.

[@pedrosmarks]

Please test 1080->720

[@GeekShhh]

Ill work on that. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

[@BradTN7]

How many transcoded 1080ps you think this would Do?

[@GeekShhh]

About 20-30, 1080p not really hard to push. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@ibcleverer]

So after watching your plex transcoding series videos...would you say the 12900k is the move, over dedicated GPU for transcoding?

[@GeekShhh]

12900K blew my mind, its uhd770. For my money I would get the 12500T or the 12600T bc they're also uhd770 so should yield the same results. Ill be testing one of them soon.

[@ibcleverer]

@@GeekShhh Appreciate the reply! I look forward to seeing the new test video! Thanks bro!

[@shockwavecity]

Do you have ReBar enabled? Honestly would like to see a test with ReBar enabled vs disabled, as my server currently runs on a machine where ReBar isn't available, and I'm hesitant to do the bios mod to turn it on.

[@GeekShhh]

On this one im not sure bc i didnt use my normal test set up. I used my normal Plex server BUT ill be getting it again to do some AV1 transcode test and ill test these 4Ks again to make sure rebar gives same results. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@KaldekBoch]

Hey mate, I just got mine running and the transcodes (1080p 20Mbs) are garbage compared to Nvidia (Quadro P400). Really bad colour banding and pixelation in comparison.

[@GeekShhh]

Color banding and Pixelation? Sheesh, now from what i understand It has certain limitations on Linux. Im using it on Windows so maybe thats why i never experienced that. Ill have to try it out on Linux so i can be more informed about those limitations. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@fuzzylobster3497]

Has anyone else had problems with the plex web app automatically transcoding all streams even when running hardware capable of decoding the media format? Ive been having this happen ever since i switch plex servers

[@GeekShhh]

Which media formats specifically are you speaking about?

[@fuzzylobster3497]

@@GeekShhh hevc, for some reason i can decode hevc on my roku, plex desktop app, etc. As soon as me and my friends try to stream my library on chrome or safari on a mac it doesnt support the format and the server transcodes it. I didnt have this problem on my old server and ive changed all the settings on my player to allow unlimited bitrate and direct play/stream. Ive also tried disabling transcoding on the server and i get a cpu error on the player

[@GeekShhh]

@@fuzzylobster3497 Thats very strange. I only can suggest to post about it in one of those Plex Facebook groups im sure one of them can help you fix that

[@ZIonDaWolfo]

how loud are the fans?

[@GeekShhh]

@@ZIonDaWolfo not loud from what I recall. I don’t do a sound test on it unfortunately. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@armond216]

I think the ARC GPU is limited by the amount of VRAM. That limit is not there for the iGPU because it can use half the system RAM for VRAM

[@GeekShhh]

Very true, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@MajorisMons]

Hows the noise levels?

[@TMavC5]

How about AV1 transcode?

[@GeekShhh]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWqvYq2dprSYoZYsi=lXciC7JGPS_crCek

[@GeekShhh]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@amarsharma2766]

i would recommend you to try to use RTX A4000 SFF gpu.

[@GeekShhh]

I just looked it up, thats a $1000 card, sheesh lol. I tried out the A2000 and will be releasing that video in the coming weeks. I may try out the A4000. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@moogs]

lol what a ridiculous suggestion.

[@abdullahtiry6394]

Is it worth to buy 14900k or 14700k for transcoding ? Need to upgrade my rig..

[@GeekShhh]

The 14900K and 14700K both have the UHD770 internal graphics which is also the same one the 12900K has and i already did a transcode video of the 12900k with the same 4K videos.....check it out... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJWYn5WirN6Hb9E

[@dannydoesd154]

if i only whats one movie at a time this is my pc moederbord asus b550 e gaming AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor videokaart Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G ram Kingston FURY Beast RGB 8GB 3200MHz DDR4

[@GeekShhh]

Please retype the question, thanks for watching and commenting!

[@dannydoesd154]

@@GeekShhh if I only watch 1 movie at a time on Plex 4k I would also see some improvement compared to my old video card this is my pc AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor video card Asus DUAL-GTX1060-O6G RAM Kingston FURY Beast RGB 8GB 3200MHz DDR4

[@fbifido2]

cab you use 2 or more at the same time in the same system ?

[@GeekShhh]

Im not sure about that one but i would imagine so, Ill try it out one day and update you. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Mike_from_Canmore]

You have to PAY for hardware xcoding in plex? oof

[@GeekShhh]

Yes, its only available through the plex pass. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@brandonchappell1535]

Its free on jellyfin

[@bentheguru4986]

Arghhh, videos and YT'ers who claim to be tech but can't get even basic terms or abreviations correct.

[@GeekShhh]

Dont let my inner peace interrupt your inner demon. Thanks for watching and commenting....enjoy your day!

[@jefferyG499]

@@GeekShhh What an utterly imbecilic response to being unable to use basic words properly.