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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All dependent on the hardware you run the server on. Give it a good GPU and you're off to the races

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't encode in AV1, I use HEVC. But while your argument is not unreasonable, it misses the component of file size and amount of disk space required.

HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264. While it does require a more modern GPU, it can be run on lower powered Intel CPUs with an integrated GPU just fine, so long as the CPU is new enough. Though it can only handle 2-3 streams on a CPU like the Intel chips in a ZimaBoard. So you need to choose wisely.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).

Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I guess it's a platter vs energy cost thing. For me it's way cheaper to buy more storage for my little puck PC that can handle ~4 streams at 1080p and sips power.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264

In some scenarios, it can. Generally I'd say it's about a 20-30% reduction in size.