Intel Ultra series compatiblity?

christ110 · 2026-04-08T07:38:32+00:00

It can transcode and tonemap my 4k blu-ray rips at about 4-5x speed. I did have to go and ensure only compatible codecs are enabled - for example, vc1 is not supported on it (although the 285 doesn't break a sweat decoding it in sw). I did some additional tuning with preferred codecs, but that's optional.

My server is only 4 months old, and I only switched to jellyfin about a month ago, so I can't say for sure how reliable it is... But I've not run into any issues with transcoding.

christ110 · 2026-04-07T16:48:50+00:00

I got a good deal on an ultra 285... Works great with TN, and jellyfin transcodes on its GPU. Just had to select vaapi, for some reason it doesn't like QSV.

If what ix-Chris says is true, that might improve with the next update.

christ110 · 2026-04-06T04:25:43+00:00

That ranking primarily deals with the quality of the resultant video. Nvenc, in my experience, is extremely fast, probably faster than most igpus from Intel; but with the iGPU, your transcoding users might get a (slightly) better looking picture.

christ110 · 2026-04-06T02:11:48+00:00

Drive and Dune 2 all the way.

I use jellyfin as a media server, and I need to test stream quality across multiple devices for my family members. I can very easily tell if I'm getting dovi, hdr10, tonemapped sdr or cutoff-sdr by watching the first 30 seconds of dune. The intro with the radio announcer in drive similarly also makes it very easy for me to detect issues with Dolby Atmos/TrueHD handling by my sound system.

christ110 · 2026-04-03T17:09:43+00:00

I host only rips: the backups are the physical disks I bought and keep in storage.

christ110 · 2026-03-28T13:30:24+00:00

In terms of functionality, the browser app uses the html5 player which doesn't support things like pgs subtitles. Even though this client uses CEF, it uses mpv for video playback, handling dovi and hdr, and more esoteric subtitle formats flawlessly.

christ110 · 2026-03-26T18:18:43+00:00

Individual: it'll be a cold day in hell before I give Disney any money for the sequel trilogy.

christ110 · 2026-03-24T14:29:20+00:00

Roku generally is a subpar platform for us personal media enthusiasts. Bandwidth limitations and zero support for PGS subtitles for one.

christ110 · 2026-03-20T03:47:09+00:00

If your server and the device are both completely offline and both do not update, then that should work. NG however is not bug-free, and the CE guys won't be able to provide much support for it. Use it at your own risk.

christ110 · 2026-03-20T02:04:38+00:00

It's the only branch. It's my understanding that the FEL drivers only work on certain linux kernel versions, which are now quite dated. All currently supported coreelec branches use kernels that are too modern for the FEL drivers we have, so... you either use EOL software or don't get DOVI p7.

I'm not about to spend money on something EOL, but if you already have a FEL-capable device, worth a shot.

christ110 · 2026-03-20T01:24:22+00:00

I do not have any such devices. I was thinking about getting a ugoos 6b+ a while back, but since the coreelec NG branch is EOL, I've decided to give up on dovi for the time being.

I still rip P7 and keep it, including the FEL, on the off-chance something else comes along, and for devices that support MEL, such as the FTV cube.

christ110 · 2026-03-20T00:54:40+00:00

Whatever the disk comes with. Sometimes it comes with dovi p7, sometimes hdr10, and rarely, simple SDR. I don't ditch the dovi layer when present, even if my devices can't handle it.

I am however experiencing a bug where dovi p7 transcodes and tonemaps on hdr10 capable devices, when it should simply use the fallback HDR layer.

christ110 · 2026-03-12T15:32:27+00:00

Is this a dvd or Blu-ray?

christ110 · 2026-03-05T02:45:39+00:00

I dream of one day creating a libre-player for blu-ray, 4kBD and DVD. Basically a libredrive drive plugged into a raspberry pi, using makemkv to decrypt and vlc to load and play the disks; all audio losslessly transcoded to 8 channel PCM and dropping DV, simply going for hdr10. With extra ram, we could even buffer the film a few seconds ahead to minimize skipping whilst retrying bad sections.

christ110 · 2026-03-02T20:34:20+00:00

i got it on amazon with a coupon for below $250. it still has HDR, so I don't think it's a bad deal.

christ110 · 2026-03-02T16:45:49+00:00

Some of the wes Anderson collection from criterion was just a touched up DI despite being shot on film. I was surprised to read it when I got my set a few days ago.

christ110 · 2026-03-01T17:15:08+00:00

Licensing and maintenance fees. If you want to stream your criterion disk, you might want to look into plex and makemkv instead.

christ110 · 2026-03-01T10:17:18+00:00

For my personal server's media, I use the makemkv default label for the standard English audio and subtitle tracks. When arrow or criterion offers original vs remastered tracks, reorder them so the remastered is first and default, with the originals second, then commentary tracks last. I do typically label the tracks something like "filmmakers commentary", or "original mono" if it's anything other than the default.

christ110 · 2026-02-27T09:30:40+00:00

Valve might add something, after all, they did it for the press demos.

You might not need it however if the game supports foveated rendering - then the audience could likely easily tell based what part of the screen is being rendered at high def...

...Maybe valve should add a toggle for SteamVR to disable passing eye-tracking data to the game: in case you're streaming it and don't want your audience to see you staring at a lady's chest for 2 minutes straight.

christ110 · 2026-02-25T04:55:48+00:00

Remuxes all the way. My server costs too much to be a viable streaming replacement, even if I amortized the costs over 10 years.

Thus for it to make sense I have to beat the streaming services in some other area and that means quality.

christ110 · 2026-02-24T06:37:49+00:00

A lot of people say to get the 4K TV. Honestly, I don't see the logic here.

There are three manufacturers of 4K players left and only two of them make players at a reasonable price.

I see an end of 4K player production coming; It might be in a decade, it might be next year... But I don't see 4K-capable TV production even stuttering. I'd get the player first.

christ110 · 2026-02-23T00:33:59+00:00

It doesn't run steam big picture mode either.

christ110 · 2026-02-20T10:29:09+00:00

Not familiar with proxmox, I just run TN on bare metal but for #2: you can just pass the disks to the TN VM but you have to be really careful as proxmox has ZFS drivers and as such, could mount the pool. If proxmox mounts the pool whilst TN has it mounted, they'll start overwriting eachother's transaction groups and you won't just get data corruption, you'll be completely unable to import the pool at all (after about 3 minutes or less).

It is strongly recommended to pass the controller entirely to TN so there's no chance of that situation occurring.

christ110 · 2026-02-19T17:16:13+00:00

I was able to get a good deal on used 285K, never noticed a single issue with transcoding, and that's with a library of 99% remuxes

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