Can someone recommend an inexpensive video card for me.  The only reason I want a video card is to use hardware acceleration while video encoding (using mcebuddy which leverages Handbrake).  I will not be playing any games or even having a display hooked to it.  The video card would need to support QuickSync and (or?) OpenCL to take advantage of the speed boost.  Looking for cost effective

Can someone recommend an inexpensive video card for me.  The only reason I want a video card is to use hardware acceleration while video encoding (using mcebuddy which leverages Handbrake).  I will not be playing any games or even having a display hooked to it.  The video card would need to support QuickSync and (or?) OpenCL to take advantage of the speed boost.  Looking for cost effective

Isn't QuickSync an Intel technology?  And if so it would then only be available with processor based graphics and those have been hard to pass through.  Although I did see a post/thread that said they were able to do it with iGPU graphics here somewhere.

You are correct Bob, looks to be an Intel thing.  If you come across the thread about passing through an iGPU please link me to it.  That would be my ideal solution!

You are correct Bob, looks to be an Intel thing.  If you come across the thread about passing through an iGPU please link me to it.  That would be my ideal solution!

I suspect what I saw might have been a link to another site.  Didn't find any subject with that here when I looked but I could easily have missed it.

If you were looking to encode only, couldn't this be done in a docker, which would have access to the IGPU wouldn't it?

If you were looking to encode only, couldn't this be done in a docker, which would have access to the IGPU wouldn't it?

This sounds like a better option for you mrdally204.  The only problem I see is that you want to run mcebuddy which I thought only ran on Windows.  But will mcebuddy let you offload the Handbrake work to another computer one running a Docker install of Handbrake.  If possible then you could setup a VM for mcebuddy and communicate with the Docker Handbrake.  Another more likely thought would be if mcebuddy would run under Wine in a Docker.

 

Just blue skying here so a more knowledgeable user might give better advice.

It is an interesting thought, but I already have Windows running my pvr along with other post processing/downloading/back end stuff.  I would like to not have to dedicate more resources to a docker if I wouldn't have to (even if that means spending a little more money)