[ale] New Build - Plex Server Transcoding - NAS

[DJ-Pfulio]

Appreciated.
>> Unknown encoder 'h264_qsv'

Not willing to use non-code programs/libraries on my systems anymore - if it
isn't in the repo or a trusted PPA, no thanks. QSV isn't part of the core ffmpeg
yet. I did my time in the mid-90s compiling special versions of almost
everything. Never again.

I did some reading about it - the plex devs seem to think it is only a 13%
improvement over their current transcoding method. Don't know if that is true.

OTOH, this may help others.


On 02/27/2015 08:20 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> https://github.com/shenhailuanma/qsv-ffmpeg-codec
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I bought a 2008 Mac mini only 4 Gigs of memory and running OS 10.6 , I am
>> been hosting Plex from it with no issues. I have a 3TB and 2TB drive that
>> are USB two, no issues with buffering. Works great my son who with my ex
>> watches movie from my server again no issues.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:22 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/26/2015 12:57 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>> Well the Intel CPU that you mentioned in the email is with built in
>>> hardware
>>>> accelerated encoder. So why not use CPU for something else :)
>>>
>>> If the software doesn't support that - it is hard to use.  avconv and
>>> ffmpeg
>>> don't appear to support this.
>>>
>>> If it is easy, sure, I'll use it.
>>>