Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:29 pm by atc98092
To answer your second question, I don't believe Serviio has the ability to use GPU processing. There is an Intel switch, but it of course relies on an Intel GPU, and I'm not certain how much value it offers.
As far as CPU, my suggestion would be to get as many cores as possible, as Serviio can use all available. There's a setting on the console under the transcoding tab that can assign as few or as many cores as you like. There's also an Optimal setting, which is default, so it can adjust the cores used based on demand. My test server is not very powerful, and to be honest I've never attempted to transcode H.265. But while it's usually maxing the CPU utilization out, it never completely freezes the computer in use. Once you have plenty of cores, I think the CPU speed is of lesser importance. But with Intel I'd go at least with the i5, and with AMD the Ryzen 5.
RAM doesn't really seem to be much of an issue. I have 8 gig in both of my Serviio machines, and memory never seems to be an issue.
Dan
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