This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

My homelab Debian server runs on an old PC, hosting containerized services via Docker on Portainer, including Jellyfin. The server didn't have a dedicated GPU, so Jellyfin relied entirely on CPU ...

At IBC 2009, I had a demo of a product I'd been waiting to see for several years: an enterprise-class graphics processor unit (GPU) transcoding system. Back in mid-2008, I was interviewed for a ...

If you're planning a Plex server or upgrading a current one, transcoding performance is probably a primary concern for you. We've come a long way from the days of 720p and limited bitrates, but ...

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to optimizing your media library through AV1 encoding while efficiently managing GPU resources between Plex and Tdarr on Unraid. By following ...

MediaShow Espresso, the cool thing about this video transcoder is that it can utilize the GPU to assist it with the transcoding process. However, you can also solely use the CPU, making this a very ...

I've been looking into some issues with GPU acceleration in WSL recently and I found myself testing multiple setups (Ubuntu, Alpine, different kernels, building mesa and libva from source, etc.). I ...