/r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2022-10-03

• picard

  238 3,551 9.8 Python

  A cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database. Picard organizes your music collection by updating your tags, renaming your files, and sorting them into a folder structure, exactly the way you want it.

  

• nvidia-patch

  309 2,959 8.5 Python

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

It will depend on your operating system, but it should "just work" in most cases. There's more information in the Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming support article. The dashboard will show (hw) if hardware decoding/encoding is being used: https://i.imgur.com/0pKLXIz.png. The one caveat with your 2060 is that Nvidia artificially limits consumer cards to 3 simultaneous encodes, so if you want more than that, you'll have to patch your drivers.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• UnicornTranscoder

  37 682 0.0 JavaScript

  Remote transcoder for Plex

  

If you're insane (or just want to experiment), you can use UnicornTranscoder to split a Plex server's transcodes across multiple separate servers (but they have to be software transcodes, no hardware acceleration). Or, just, use a computer with a 10th-gen Intel CPU with iGPU, which can handle over a dozen simultaneous transcodes without issue.

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