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ARM vs x64: same price, which would you pick?

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nate_pad

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#11

Did anyone figure out if you need to install drivers for quicksync or if it's just there out of the box

Also 75 days later but still curious

tallinnying

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Night Shift

#12

I finally ran cat /proc/cpuinfo on the Vultr box I grabbed Got a Xeon E-2288G so no iGPU, rip quicksync dreams Should have opened that ticket first like olya said Still doing software transcode for now, CPU sits around 40% per 1080p stream which is fine for my 4 stream max I guess

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olya

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Always Free

#13

Nobody answered the actual question

nate_pad said:
Is it built into the cpu or do I need to install something
It's built in, but you need to expose it to the container/VM which budget hosts often don't. On bare metal you'd install Intel media drivers, on Docker you pass /dev/dri, on LXC you map the device. Plex picks it up automatically if it sees the node. Check Plex dashboard during a transcode, it'll say "(hw)" next to the stream. The real gotcha is whether the host even exposes the iGPU to your instance. Most don't on cheap VPS. You might end up doing CPU transcode anyway and at that point ARM vs x64 matters less than core count.

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salavi

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Threat Modeler

#14

Threat model: Plex hardware transcode claims iGPU passthrough. Blast radius: CPU fallback on every stream. Attack surface: /dev/dri visible to container but driver stack may not be. Zero trust the docker compose. I had a box on Hetzner where /dev/dri showed up but Plex still fell back to CPU. Might have been my docker compose though

RA

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#15

Did anyone actually get QuickSync working on a Vultr shared node? I opened a ticket and they said it's "best effort" on VPS, which sounds like a no to me

Ended up on Hetzner instead and /proc/cpuinfo shows UHD 630, Plex picks it up out of the box

DmitriEng

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#16

I opened a ticket six months back and got a vague "hardware varies by availability" response. Also re: nate_pad's question, Plex picks up QuickSync automatically if /dev/dri exists and permissions are right. No special settings beyond enabling hardware transcoding in the server menu.

marcus_qc

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#17

Actually wait,

olya said:
Vultr - verify CPU model before order
— anyone done this recently? Last time I checked their x64 stock they were moving older Xeons without iGPU into the cheap tier. Might be worth a ticket before you commit.

Also 287 days later, did you ever solve this @tallinnying? Curious if you went ARM and regretted it.

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adam20

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Ex-Abuse Desk

#18

I opened a ticket six months back and got a "check after ordering" response which wasn't super helpful. Also re: nate_pad's question, Plex picks it up automatically if /dev/dri exists and permissions are right. No special settings beyond making sure the container or user can access the render group

reported. resolved. repeat.
lucgone

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Le Baguette

#19

I opened a ticket last year and they just said "check after order" which is not super helpful Also @nate_pad Plex picks it up automatically if the driver is there, you don't need to tick a box or anything

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tarekcai

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#20

Did anyone actually get QuickSync working on Vultr's cheap tier

I asked support and they said "no guaranteed iGPU passthrough"

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