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Got tired of the the Fire TV Cube being.... well, an amazon product. Slow, freezy, plex implementation is mediocre.

Finally found a Shield TV for a reasonable price and grabbed it. Looking forward to it.
 
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welp, im going full-domon again. I already outgrew the little NUC i had for "infrastructure" and am upgrading to a 2u with server-hardware in it again. Need more cores, and more ram, and some full sized cards.
 
Even with cuda enabled, my old i5-2400 isn't keeping up with zoneminder on two cameras. Load average is through the roof, and it becomes untenable to use it as an HTPC. I dumped it again in favor of letting the cameras do their own detections with long term NFS storage. I'd still like to figure out a "live feed" to stream the rtsp from my server on some sort of webpage.

Probably ought to just get some sort of many-core modern processor (or older Xeon) and replace it.
 
how did you "outgrow" it?
CPU use hovering around 80% between plex + frigate, and outta ram regularly. I coulda upgraded the ram instead... but why do that when i could go full-domon.

Would like to make it a proper proxmox box with a bunch of LXCs and VMs, but also need some additional PHYs to support more network oriented stuff (opnsense, etc)
 
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Even with cuda enabled, my old i5-2400 isn't keeping up with zoneminder on two cameras. Load average is through the roof, and it becomes untenable to use it as an HTPC. I dumped it again in favor of letting the cameras do their own detections with long term NFS storage. I'd still like to figure out a "live feed" to stream the rtsp from my server on some sort of webpage.

Probably ought to just get some sort of many-core modern processor (or older Xeon) and replace it.
for any type of video processing or decoding stuff, gotta go intel 7th gen or better. Makes a huge difference due to the dedicated quicksync decode/transcode capability that just completely takes that load off the CPU. Applies to both cctv, and jellyfin/plex/emby/etc

You actualyl dont need a ton of cores, 4 is fine as long as you've got UHD 630 for all the video workloads
 
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for any type of video processing or decoding stuff, gotta go intel 7th gen or better. Makes a huge difference due to the dedicated quicksync decode/transcode capability that just completely takes that load off the CPU. Applies to both cctv, and jellyfin/plex/emby/etc

You actualyl dont need a ton of cores, 4 is fine as long as you've got UHD 630 for all the video workloads
Will the UHD 630 still work, even if I have a 1050ti in there for Kodi?
 
Will the UHD 630 still work, even if I have a 1050ti in there for Kodi?
yep, you can use both. But you wont need the 1050ti anymore, quicksync is just so much better than it at the transcode/decode. the 1050 was the best solution for a long time, but the stream limit (even with the hacked drivers) and the power use just doesnt compete with quicksync.
 
Here's my go to guide for this stuff


Dude says basically every bit of advice i would give with a lot more detail and even links for getting the hardware cheap
 
oh, an element of my full-domon approach by the way, is to use a really cheap direct-from-china BGA cpu with an interposer for best performance/watt

Super dumb, but optimal solution.
 
yep, you can use both. But you wont need the 1050ti anymore, quicksync is just so much better than it at the transcode/decode. the 1050 was the best solution for a long time, but the stream limit (even with the hacked drivers) and the power use just doesnt compete with quicksync.
I was thinking I'd just keep the 1050 around as dedicated hardware for kodi, since a dedicated path for the main interface seems like a win/win.
 
If you lived here you'd sniff syrup too. Shit's awesome, unlike your syrupless shithole.
dude, i grew up in vermont, my honorary canadian status is cemented. Anywhere close enough to the border that they would take canadian coins mixed in with american is part of canada.
 
I was thinking I'd just keep the 1050 around as dedicated hardware for kodi, since a dedicated path for the main interface seems like a win/win.
ahhh, you use the box as a player too, not just a server.

Yeah, thatd work fine for an output. There will be a bios setting to have both the UHD and the PCIe card active thatll youll have to flip, but beyond that no biggie.
 
CPU use hovering around 80% between plex + frigate, and outta ram regularly. I coulda upgraded the ram instead... but why do that when i could go full-domon.

Would like to make it a proper proxmox box with a bunch of LXCs and VMs, but also need some additional PHYs to support more network oriented stuff (opnsense, etc)
I thought you had a Coral? And why are you transcoding Plex? :wtf: