I was having some dropped frame issues on my PC, and my phones video is pretty much unusable so I figured its probably a lack of hardware acceleration. Is it worth it to buy an Intel A380 which I’ve found for $120, or is it not worth it? For reference I currently have an i5 8600k and 16gb of RAM running Ubuntu Server headlessly.

  • PaperTowel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I run a few different self hosted applications on this PC, Nextcloud, Gitea, and Navidrome. It seems I need to transcode pretty often it seems, I’m pretty technical in most aspects but I’m a noob in this area so I might be wrong, but the player info says stuff like 74.5% transcoded and stuff like that on all the media I’ve played. For 120$ and just for the love of tinkering it might be worth it anyways.

    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The percentage shows how much of the currently watched media is already transcoded - if your hardware were too weak and the transcoding is slower than the playback, you could wait for it to transcode like 30% before you start watching. I feel that :D if my 1070 wouldn’t be more than enough at the moment, I’d bite the bullet, too