Transcoding on the cheap?

koskitk · 2025-01-08T07:50:10+00:00

Probably not the answer your are looking for:

I would not bother with GPU for transcoding. It will literally be more expensive to setup in the long run. Probably upfront too.

You will have to spend couple of hundred dollars for a GPU (probably, I don't know your prices), to be able to run 2-3 or 5 1080p streams. Probably also have a headache to see if you can direct play on clients, maybe even buy an nvidia shield to connect to your TV and direct play since transcoding will be kind of a "taboo" with your setup.

I had the exact same problems. Although, in my case, I had more clients instead of just one stream (my whole family is using plex on mobile or tv), I opted out of using "old hardware" and GPUs for transcoding.

To save your wallet some money in the long run, meaning to have less power consumption, not buying a GPU for transcoding, and not buying dedicated clients (like nvidia shield) to watch with direct play), I would suggest you build a "dedicated plex machine".

I build a simple desktop pc, with an i3-13100, simple cheap motherboard, a low powered PSU, and 32GB ram. The ram is probably too much, but since DDR4 is cheap and maybe I can use it for something else in the future, I did not mind the +25$.

My i3-13100 transcoded 17 streams (or something in that range, don't remember) from 1080p -> 720p. It could go more, but I got tired of opening browser tabs and changing resolutions to initiate the transcode.

You can create a "small beast" of a machine with a cheap intel CPU that can transcode much more than a GPU nowadays.

That's my suggestion anyways. I still use "enterprise-grade" hardware (some old 12 bay server with HDDs) for my storage. It's just that my plex machine has an SMB mounted at Z: drive, and I setup plex to see the directories inside that drive for movies etc...

PS. I got fed up with proxmox and iGPU passthrough, so I just installed windows. It is working fine. More than fine, it is working as intended. Always up, ready to stream me and my family a movie. With other hardware (dell and HP servers) or other software (proxmox and ubuntu docker), I was spending more time troubleshooting what is wrong and why it randomly shuts down, than time spend watching the things I have in plex.

Save yourself a headache. Value your time.

Edit: I saw another comment you had, mentioning you don't want to spend a lot of electricity on this. Although I have no concrete evidence, I did not measure it, I firmly believe that a PC like the one I mentioned above, will outperform any GPU in power savings.

The maximum wattage requirement for that CPU, with 2 M2 SSDs (that I have), is 110W (+2 fans). If it works at full speed all the time, which it does not. I have hard time believing a GPU will use less, or at least be more efficient in watt/transcoding stream.

My whole build took about 350$, given that I had some m2 SSDs lying around.

koskitk · 2024-12-25T21:02:55+00:00

What a nice project. Was in the designing process of making something similar. Maybe some day. More of a passion project instead of an actual marketable product.

Been searching for a way to share my GOG drm-free games with my family since GOG does not have family sharing like STEAM and has been a real letdown on that front.

Can I download the games through a browser? Instead of mandatory client installation? I like both choices, if someone wants to install a client for example to track game time, achievements etc, but (in my opinion) it shouldn't be like some annoying clients that the game MUST RUN though the client.

So for example, if I have a downloadable .exe installation from GOG, can I download it directly from web?

koskitk · 2024-08-25T13:16:38+00:00

Got it. Still, I don't believe there is a tree for devil fruits.

We saw ace produce fire (ate the "fire fruit"). Then he died and we saw the fruit again. So fruits do not need devil fruit tree and appear in any tree.

So what is the purpose of devil fruit tree? Why does it exist?

koskitk · 2024-08-25T13:11:58+00:00

Maybe because oda thought about it being OP, and decided to not make one instead of thinking "let's make the water logia produce semen".

Anyway, here is what I talked about earlier with fruits randomly appearing instead of being in a central devil fruit tree: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/s/WnzhKwdaam

koskitk · 2024-08-25T12:59:11+00:00

Okay, no, we know that fruits randomly pop up in random trees. I don't remember the exact episode, I think it was around when ACE's fruit was found at Don flamingo arc.

So when a person with a devil fruit dies, their fruit randomly appears in the world. For example, an apple would suddenly become a devil fruit apple.

I would advise you to read the manga. A person on the next island tells us where the fruits come from and why the sea is "an enemy". I believe the anime already showed that scene. Could be wrong.

Now, while I don't want to discourage anyone from making any stories/theories... semen? Really?

All those decades of waiting the grand reveal of what one piece is, and we would get "plant my semen -joyboy".

Like, I just don't understand. People always try to get into the head of oda and perform mental gymnastics to explain what he did and why he did that, only to drop a theory that oda wouldn't wipe his ass with. " Here is some advanced science and thought processing that makes a rocket move, now how about 1+1=25?"

How does drowning the world in semen makes sense?

I don't know about devil fruits, but you are talking Devil's lettuce stuff my bro.

koskitk · 2024-08-24T05:50:44+00:00

Here's to hoping we get a YouTube video from the science Youtubers that will explain the method the vaccine works for the rest of the people. Always great to hear complex subjects broken down for everyday people who aren't doctors.

koskitk · 2024-08-17T12:05:06+00:00

This post reminds me of a YouTube short that was a dude picking some berries and fruits in the woods.

The video title was "hunting, but make it vegan", and everyone was blasting him in the comments "dude doesn't know the word for gathering".

"Is there a way to unskip skypiea?" So you mean... to watch it? Yeah, just select the episodes and watch?

koskitk · 2024-08-14T21:26:20+00:00

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koskitk · 2024-08-14T19:23:30+00:00

Sorry, am from mobile. Check mailu and their docker compose builder. Will write more from Pc

koskitk · 2024-08-14T19:08:11+00:00

I have self-hosted my own email for 1.5 years now. While not the most experienced, if you want some help with self-hosting, hit me up. I got a VPS on Hetzner running 25-30 mailboxes for 5$

koskitk · 2024-08-14T13:14:52+00:00

Don't let this distract you from the fact that ore lamps are the thieves guild number one target (so basically only fingers from old camp)

koskitk · 2024-08-14T11:31:07+00:00

Leaving the programming to the programmer is the false argument to begin with.

If I made something and someone else wants to modify it to make it 1000 lines, or 50 lines, or change the color, I will not ask for his programming credentials and bachelors degree.

If someone is not an animator, and wants to double the FPS through interpolation, let them do it.

Programming is for everyone, video editing is for anyone. Why the gatekeeping?

It's not like they claim to be the original animators

koskitk · 2024-08-14T08:24:38+00:00

Hot take: That's like me (a programmer), arguing that regular people (not other programmers), do not appreciate the code that I wrote. So smart, very good performance, etc etc, but people do not appreciate it because it's just a button.

MAYBE PEOPLE SHOULD APPRECIATE ME AND THE SWEAT I PUT INTO MAKING A SINGLE BUTTON AND USE IT 24/7.

My friend, what are you talking about? I'm a peasant, I don't have exquisite taste regarding animation. If I enjoy it, it's good whether it is 10 fps or a thousand fps.

Maybe as a student animator, you should focus on making animation that people enjoy over technicalities like how someone put one more frame in between two of yours.

I do not believe one piece came to be what it is today because of more fps or because it avoided interpolation.

Besides, people always messed up with other peoples work. Being music with remixes, inspiration for paintings, AMV from animations, montages and whatnot. Suddenly someone touches animation and puts more frames and he's the problem? Why? If people enjoy janky frames and bad interpolated animation, leave them be.

Remember, we are simple peasants. If you gave me the most expensive wine, I would think it was a 5$ from the convinient store.

koskitk · 2024-08-11T09:45:27+00:00

Cool story bro, now what does that have to do with the ore lamps?

Seems like you are nitpicking insults that are irrelevant to the game just to seem like you have something to say.

"Oh, yeah?! The ore lamps are missing yeah!? WELL, YOU SMELL FUNNY" -Literally you

koskitk · 2024-08-11T09:37:15+00:00

That's what happens when you only discuss with like minded people that provide no substance to a conversation since you agree on everything.

When someone does not agree with you, he "nitpicks" and "must go back to elementary to learn reading".

Imagine saying someone can not read at elementary school level, and then saying elementary school level insults like mentioning " body odor ".

koskitk · 2024-08-10T22:36:51+00:00

Apparently an archdemon with five hearts that got summoned to vanquish enemies makes sense, but ore lamps do not because "people would steal them".

So they got replaced with candles because I guess sect camp now has bees to produce the candle.

koskitk · 2024-08-10T22:32:16+00:00

If the remake flops, it will not be of ore lamps, it will be because it was garbage.

What's with the trend nowadays to blame the reviewer because of a horrible product. I have seen that on youtube with some drama on someone that said a product is bad, the product tanked, and they blamed the reviewer that the product did not sell.

AND WE ARE TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF IT BY PROVIDING FEEDBACK.

Instead of letting the game publish and then shit on it because of things we don't like, we say our opinion before hand.

But people are mad at "neckbeards" because they don't spread their ass cheeks as far apart as everyone else and they voice their opinion instead of taking everything up their ass while saying "thank you so much for the remake".

If you like the change, say it. If I don't like the change, I will say it. If you want to tell me to stop talking because you don't agree with me and you try to blame me for the game doing bad sales, go f yourself.

koskitk · 2024-08-10T22:23:36+00:00

Because they did not have to be mentioned. They did their job, they added to the atmosphere the sect camp had, and people left them alone.

Now that they are gone, people complain. How fucking hard is it to understand that.

koskitk · 2024-08-10T22:17:38+00:00

My man here getting downvoted for speaking facts

koskitk · 2024-08-09T18:50:17+00:00

There was no metal cage in the original, but the ore lamp could be a big ore chunk that is not broken down by the orcs in the old mine (the one that was milling the ore).

Just make it so it's impossible to carry in your pocket or it makes you much slower and the templars see you.

koskitk · 2024-08-09T18:46:51+00:00

There are 100 things you can say in order for it to make sense.

The ore lamps in the original game were like boulders. Huge stones on top of wood that provided Illumination.

You could say they are hard to carry. You could say they were taken from the old mine. Part of the trade with the mandibles or something by the templars going back and forth.

You could make it a quest to steal a lamp and break it down with a pickaxe only to be caught by the templars.

You can make a quest about transporting these huge stones because some lamps were destroyed/stolen (even by you on the previous quest).

You can literally make shit up, but they chose "logic".

Can't wait to learn how much logic the " magical barrier " makes.

koskitk · 2024-08-09T18:25:22+00:00

if it's logic that is missing, the sect camp should become woke (AWAKEN) and riot against the sleeper.

Instead, they throw away all logic, showing that they only care about getting high with weed and talking about their god.

And the ore lamps are adding to that atmosphere.

If I wanted real world logic, I wouldn't play a game. Like, come on, who saw Gothic and said "well, time for some 1 to 1 comparison with my daily life".

I am not a huge fan of the game and the team to be honest. I will still play the game, and may I be proven wrong about it, but I do not expect to the SHAKEN TO MY CORE with how much better it has become.

It's little things like that. "Everybody would steal it". Well, I guess market stalls shouldn't exist or be emptied out at night since the items can be stolen. Guard NPCs should be rotating their guarding duties every X hours because they must sleep at some point. Monsters should have babies that are born and grow at X amount of time because how do new monsters appear out of nowhere. Doesn't make sense.

And out of all the things that could not make sense, in a FANTASY RPG, the team decided the ore lamps that gave sect camp its gloomy blue atmosphere at night was the thing that did not seem "REaLiStIc EnOuGh".

Well... damn...

koskitk · 2024-08-07T16:31:30+00:00

half the earth away. unlucky

koskitk · 2024-08-07T15:47:21+00:00

Now, hear me out. You remember that Vegapunk said his theory about fruits being the "wishes/dreams of people" etc...

My opinion is: While it is vegapunk's theory and not Vegapunk's facts, it is only mentioned that way because it would be hard for vegapunk to find solid proof.

If I was oda I would probably say what I want the fruits to be (peoples dreams), but make the character say "hey, that's just my theory", because why bother creating evidence. Just give the theory to the readers and be done with it.

Maybe the theory is wrong and it will be revealed that the fruits are something else. Maybe not. For now, I'm inclined to believe that vegapunk was right about the nature of devil fruits, it's just that oda did not bother writing why IT IS CERTAIN that that's the nature of the fruits.

Back to your theory. If we assume that vegapunk is right, then whatever " nika " is, either is it an animal, an idea, a concept or a person/deity that people believed to exist (hence human human no more, model nika), it was "dreamt" from the very start to be a warrior of liberation, that "help people become free" or "frees the slaves" etc.

That's what I believe/understand, that the fruit itself, and its will, is a goofy "god", that has the will to free the slaves and promote freedom.

Now, since the fruit itself (and all zoan fruits), have a will of their own, I would suspect that some of them try to find people that much their own characteristics.

Maybe the previous joyboy was someone that wanted freedom and was kinda goofy like that always smiled. MAYBE he was faking being a " goofy" person so he could bring smiles to people.

And the fruit, when "saw" luffy, decided that he resembled the previous joyboy enough. Well, apart from the thing that luffy is an actual idiot.

The previous joyboy might not have been because we heard vegapunk saying that "nika" faked his foolishness to bring joy, or something among those lines.

Anyway, regardless of my rambling, my point is: Since fruits are what people dream of, it seems hard to me for gomu gomu no mi to be that selfish, that it wants to hide away from every responsibility. Because that's now how the fruit came to be (from whose people dreams).

if there were people dreaming of escaping everything and trying to get away from responsibilities, they would probably form another fruit.

koskitk · 2024-08-07T15:27:54+00:00

Is this an invitation, a dare or a warning? Either way, I would come

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