nvidia-patch VS unmanic

> CUDA, and pretty much all optimization(hacks) done to run games better

And arbitrary limitations implemented at the driver level to force you to purchase their enterprise GPUs, see https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch#nvenc-and-nvfbc-patc...

Firstly, I followed this tutorial to patch the driver. I have the 536.23 DCH and patched both x64 and x32 dll. https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/blob/master/win/README.md

I have never had to do the session limit bump thing from the last link. I have a 3090 as well and simply did the initial unlock, which worked fine. I would reinstall fresh drivers from Nvidia, making sure you install the newest one that is supported by the unlock tool (536.40 as of this post, the GitHub for the patch has links to the drivers - https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win)

NVENC patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.

Windows: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win

As far as I know this isn't possible to do. Besides a 3070 is already plenty powerful for transcoding. You can also patch the driver on Linux to enable more than 3 transcode streams (because Nvidia limits to 3 streams on consumer hardware). If you don't have more than a handful of users one 3070 will be plenty.

Either you get an intel cpu for quicksync to handle a lot of transcode (8th gen+) or get a nvidia card (pascal or above) and use the unlock script at startup (https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch).

Another thing, NVIDIA limits these GPUs to 3 NVENC sessions, but you can install an NVENC Patch on both the host and container to unlock it.

- unmanic : basically a FFmpeg GUI. I just wanted to test it and next thing I know, I passed through multiples tv shows and got down from 8TB to 6.5TB

You may also wish to look into Unmanic for the ongoing maintenance of your media library. I don't currently use it myself. I have been meaning to try it, just haven't got around to doing it.

Unmanic will save your life... https://github.com/Unmanic/unmanic

Some options. You could also just use ffmpeg/handbrake and batch convert. 1. Plex Cleaner 2. Tdarr 3. Unmanic 4. Sickbeard MP4 Automator

https://github.com/mdhiggins/sickbeard_mp4_automator https://github.com/Unmanic/unmanic

Tdarr or Unmanic

Unmanic (convert all your videos automatically to preferred format/codecs) https://github.com/Unmanic/unmanic

Handbrake would be a manual thing. I've heard people having luck with https://github.com/Unmanic/unmanic which is like Tdarr, just not quite as complex and not distributed.