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[Ivynoob]

So here's a question for you can you offload on the fly transcoding to the on board graphics on an I5?

I built a media PC with the following

ASRock Z67 PRO3
Ivy Bridge I5 3570K
2 x 4g Gskill ripjaws 1600 Ram
and so on

I built it to not only store but also to act as media server. I'm currently using Wild Media Server but can't seem to get the on the fly transcoding to go to the onboard GPU and I was hoping to get away from a discrete GPU considering the thing is running 24/7 and want the lowest heat output/energy consumption as possible.

Any thoughts would be greatly apprecitated.

 

[NTMBK]

Look up "QuickSync", it's a video encode/decode engine built into Ivy Bridge. It can sometimes give slightly worse image quality than a CPU transcode, but it's damn fast. Anand is a big fan.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Look up "QuickSync", it's a video encode/decode engine built into Ivy Bridge. It can sometimes give slightly worse image quality than a CPU transcode, but it's damn fast. Anand is a big fan.

But the transcoding / media-serving software has to explicitly support it, AFAIK.

 

[AkumaX]

that's an Asrock Z77 😛

and software that can utilize quick sync:

http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/article/arcsoft-mediaconverter-75

 

[Ivynoob]

Lol. Z68 sorry 😉

Trouble is I can't find any software that natively will offload on the fly transcoding to inboard graphics.

Arcsoft doesn't handle transcoding on the fly. I've looked into wild transcoding using coreavc but haven't used it yet.

Hmmm