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I'm taking down my big Supermicro server to save energy and moving Plex/Jellyfin/*arr to a spare 10th gen Intel NUC with SSDs. Performance is fine for DirectPlay media to my SHIELD and mobile devices, but the onboard GPU power is limited and struggles to even transcode some 1080p media -- let alone 4K. Does anyone have experience using eGPUs in a Thunderbolt chassis with a NUC and can you share what worked or didn't work for you in terms of hardware and configuration?

Edit: this is an i7-10710U with NVMe storage and 32GB of RAM, running Windows 10 with all the latest drivers directly from Intel.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you tell us exactly what hardware, we could give you better answers.

If you want to avoid transcoding, you could configure your stack to filter out unsupported codecs, or pre-convert them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on pre converting them? Do you mean with an outside application like handbrake or an automated one in the arr stack?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's tdarr, unmanic and fileflows as the popular choices.

Personally I use fileflows as it is extremely customisable and you can set up quite complex rules for how and what to convert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I appreciate your reply! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are -arr programs for it, or you could script something. Plex has it built in.