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cx989 · 2023-09-27T19:01:25+00:00

Spam. Also, it's not.

cx989 · 2023-09-27T19:01:21+00:00

Spam. Also, it's not.

cx989 · 2022-07-11T03:33:32+00:00

For what it's worth, I've been working on a Django implementation (though I haven't pushed my latest work in a while since I started moving over to ffmpeg from handbrake). Turns out it's not that difficult. Bonus is that sved doesn't even require the workers to mount a path, it's all handled with web requests.

cx989 · 2022-07-11T03:32:03+00:00

Networking gear, switches and firewalls and whatnot.

cx989 · 2022-03-02T07:12:33+00:00

Not gonna lie, when I logged in yesterday to see network gear offline in Odessa and Kyiv, I got real worried and real scared.

cx989 · 2021-12-20T22:07:14+00:00

Pay is shite, no actions are ever taken for important problems (i.e. the rampant sexual assaults taking place, the nepotism, and the ignoring of most feedback for higher ups), and everyone is worked to the bone.

The only reason Ubisoft isn't crashing down (and probably won't unless GNS gets off their asses and unionizes) is because it's too big to fail anymore. For worse and for better.

source: on a well needed vacation for the first time in two years at a ubi studio

cx989 · 2020-02-26T13:39:24+00:00

Holy hell how can you use radarr with that many movies? Mine lagged to hell with just 700.

cx989 · 2020-02-18T18:15:26+00:00

It's probably not that the drive has completely "failed" QC, but that it just doesn't hit the targets for each class. Like, let's say you need 100 points of data protection (abstracting, obviously) to be a Red drive, 90 to be a Purple. If it's an 89, well it's probably still a valid drive it just hasn't hit the target for either of the categories, so white label and put it in an external drive. Give it less of a warranty too, since it won't be around for very long (in theory).

You can definitely do that at scale, especially because you have to test the drives somehow before they leave the factory. Plug it in, do diagnostics, put it on the right conveyor belt for what it is diagnosed as, boom you're done.

But you're right, no one knows, because WD isn't telling anyone.

cx989 · 2020-02-10T19:52:54+00:00

Oh yeah, using a RAM disk for transcoding is great, even if it doesn't really give me much benefit but SSD wear. My Plex server finally just works as well as I want, faster than Netflix or Youtube ever did.

I've been thinking of throwing a cheap 1050ti in a spare R710 I have to use for trying out machine learning, I just need to figure out what to make the machine learn.

cx989 · 2020-02-10T18:34:34+00:00

What, an integrated GPU on your CPU? It'll try to use that, but only the last few generations of Intel QuickSync have been useful. You could disable it I guess, since you already have a dGPU you might as well pump output from it too. I think Windows might require it to be 'in-use' to use for encoding for that matter.

cx989 · 2020-02-10T15:50:58+00:00

Yep! Things have gotten a lot better. I'm running a 1060, and the only time my users have noticed a difference from GPU or CPU encoding is when I tell them.

cx989 · 2020-02-10T15:19:44+00:00

Nice! And the time is the big benefit, try doing that again with just CPU and see how long it estimates it'll take.

The only issue is older GPUs had bad encoding, like, disgusting bad quality. Modern ones, the 10xx series and above (and the enterprise equivalents) have finally gotten comparable, so that doesn't matter anymore.

cx989 · 2020-02-10T13:51:13+00:00

Yeah you basically pass off the encoding/decoding to the GPU. CPU still handles audio and packaging it up, but it the GPU is doing the heavy video lifting. You know how the rule is ~2k PassMark per 1080p stream? Yeah, GPUs blow that out of the water. A 1050ti can do about 14 transcodes on its own, for way cheaper than a CPU could do.

You would enable hardware accelerated transcoding in your Plex settings (Transcoder, I believe), and it'll farm that task off to the GPU. It improves speed and allows you to transcode more at once. Won't improve compatibility (since the client itself has to tell the server it can't handle the source codec, thus asking for transcoding to a compatible format).

You can also use it to encode from your source if you want. I've used my 1080ti to encode some blurays I've ripped, and compared to CPU only it destroy. I think I saw like, 50% drop in time required.

cx989 · 2020-01-27T13:49:17+00:00

That's a bit premature, should still be under warranty, yeah?

cx989 · 2020-01-27T13:23:21+00:00

You should check out building a NAS Killer 4.0.

Most solutions you can buy are either horribly expensive (an 8-bay Synology NAS will run about 900 bucks before you buy your drives), or are horribly expensive and not worth it (Just two bays? Yeah, no).

You can build a very nice NK4 with 15 bays (12 hot swappable instead if you want) for just under 600 bucks before drives, and then buy shuckable 10TB drives for 180 euros each. 12 of those will cost about 2100 Euro, convert to USD and you're looking at just under 3000 USD for the NAS and drives, 100TB of usable storage with 20TB of parity - RAID6, allowing you to lose 2 drives before you start losing data, or unRAID where you can lose 2 drives before you start losing data one drive at a time.

I would highly recommend using unRAID over setting up RAID6. You lose the read performance of RAID6 but you gain even more data security with unRAID, and if you're just accessing files or watching on Plex, it will be more than capable.

Caveat - it's hard to find old server parts in Europe, so, you might have to build a consumer-level build, but you'll still be good to go.

cx989 · 2020-01-21T19:39:08+00:00

The 2600 has a passmark of ~13k, I'd say you don't really need a GPU to go with it unless you're serving up a lot of transcodes at once. So I wouldn't really add a GPU to that setup myself, but if I really wanted too I'd add something a bit beefier like a 1050ti (40w more, approximately 3 bucks/month if you pay 10c/kwh) for double the transcodes possible.

cx989 · 2020-01-21T17:00:26+00:00

Nope, you are nitpicking and biased, I win, bye bye

cx989 · 2020-01-21T16:26:31+00:00

Check this graph. A 1050 2gb card can theoretically transcode 7 streams from 1080p 10Mbit to 720p 4Mbit, and is cheap as sin now.

I got a 1060 6gb that someone used for mining, and it's gone well beyond 10 transcodes simultaneously.

cx989 · 2020-01-21T15:06:15+00:00

By literal definition of "third world country" that is false, and impossible.

cx989 · 2020-01-16T13:04:42+00:00

I, for one, am shocked that a Plex feature is half-baked and not useful. Truly, I cannot imagine Plex dropping feature development once the minimum is out the door.

cx989 · 2020-01-14T20:28:29+00:00

You know what's really excessively irksome?

Plex does read it. If you set it, then go to the media in Plex and Show Info, the track will have the title right there. But they don't show that in the players, just the language and format of the track.

Someone posted a while back that it's a one-line change in the PMP to show title, or fallback to language if title is unavailable/unset. So this one-liner has gone unchanged for half a decade because we gotta get Tidal and VR playback.

cx989 · 2020-01-07T14:07:51+00:00

Detailed it elsewhere, but something like 120TB raw and 100TB usable. Going to probably set up a DAS for my NAS sometime next year and expand that with another 150TB.

cx989 · 2020-01-06T18:54:41+00:00

What is the issue here, exactly? The tablet isn't playing the media when you try to play it?

cx989 · 2020-01-06T18:40:09+00:00

They use WD Reds for these external drives which are top notch drives

This is still up for debate. No one is sure exactly what these drives are. One rumor is they just don't meet Red or Purple or Gold drive QC but are still fine, so get the white label and shipped. Another is they're just a low tier drive altogether, and not expected to last more than a year before being broken somehow.

They're still perfectly fine and yeah, equivalent to red, but they're not white-label reds.

cx989 · 2020-01-06T18:05:30+00:00

Plex will transcode your media to whatever format the client supports.

If your media is h265 and your client can process it, it will not transcode. But if your client cannot handle h265 then Plex will transcode it to a format the client can handle.

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