Re:From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
by dylan604 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:50AM
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not trolling at all. i just don't think of the GPU as that. probably silly on my part, but as stated, i come from the world of expensive dedicated encoding devices vs generic parts of a computer you already have.
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EDIT: Looks like QSV is the new transcoding api for Intel CPUs. My info was out of date.
VAAPI is in Intel chips: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
It represents parts of the CPU optimized to transcode video. The newer CPUs support HEVC/h265 which would otherwise introduce a huge load on a machine when done in a normal CPU.
Having the "hardware transcoder" as part of the chip means you can transcode huge videos without consuming huge amounts of system resources.
Jellyfin includes this, or more accurately exposes the ffmpeg implementation of this, whereas Plex charges for it.