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  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I’ve considered GPU acceleration, but I’ve read that software is vastly superior in terms of quality for encoding video, and so for a video archival website that made more sense to me. I haven’t personally done any benchmarks or comparisons though.

    I plan to add my home server as a remote runner for more transcoding power. I used it briefly in the past but encountered a technical bug (it may have been fixed in a recent software update). A downside to using remote runners is that it bloats the network traffic[1], so it makes sense to make the localhost as powerful as possible.

    1. If someone uploads a 1 GB video to the server which gets transcoded locally, it consumes 2 GB of traffic once the files are uploaded to object storage. If a remote runner is used to transcode the same video, the server hands it off to the remote and receives it back again, doubling the traffic to 4 GB ↩︎

    • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Is there any way you could make it user selectable? Or grant it on a per user basis based on needs? I suppose not.

      It’s just I don’t think movie watch night uploads of Batman and MLP really need the same care as uploads from combat zones or from resistance fighters or communist content creators and re-encoding them using GPU acceleration makes sense as long as you use a reasonably slow preset (still very fast on gpu acceleration).

      Both Intel QSV and NVENC are quite good and even AMD’s implementation while considered behind and inferior to those too wouldn’t necessarily be so bad that most Hexbear movie watch night users would necessarily notice given we’re talking about a less than 800 pixel window on the side of cytube on 1080p monitors. Though I admit my only experience is with NVENC, QSV, and software encoding.

      Warning technical rambling

      For archival purposes I would definitely recommend software encoding where possible. I use it myself for my own collection of definitely legally acquired major films and TV shows because it results in:

      1. Smaller file sizes (maybe 2-10% difference) for the same quality which in longer term storage scenarios can indeed matter
      2. Higher quality

      And because I’m re-encoding from already lossy encoded bluray and at times web type sources reducing the amount of degradation via repeatedly encoding something is important to me because I’m watching it on a big TV.

      Though when we’re talking about software encoding generally there’s a big difference between medium/slow and slower than that presets and things like fast, ultra fast, etc. Medium and below, especially slow really get you the best results with drastically diminishing returns for slower, very slow, placebo settings. They’re the best balance of quality speed settings which is why many quality p2p type groups use them.

      If you’re doing very fast encoding using software then at that point the difference between that and a slower preset run on NVENC or QSV (intel) isn’t a very wide gulf as faster presets are also less file size efficient compared to slower ones and lower quality.

      I think personally if I was in a situation of needing to do fast or especially higher than that (faster) encode presets via software that I would consider whether I couldn’t for no additional money or less money switch to something that can utilize NVENC at slower preset. Obviously keep in mind storage costs and test to see what file sizes you get out of a few different types of test files to see if it might represent in the long-run a storage issue before making a change like that.