hey folks,

 

I'm not too familiar with how docker containers handle the resources so I'd like to ask about this scenario:

 

my unraid server is running on older AMD APU. I have the emby server running of of the docker but on some of the transcoding operations the CPU is maxed out and the playback is choppy. If I add a GPU like Quadro K2000 that I have laying around, would the docker container be able to take advantage of it?

 

thanks,

No, adding a GPU won't help. Most likely your CPU is just too slow for all the things you are asking of it right now.

hey folks,

 

I'm not too familiar with how docker containers handle the resources so I'd like to ask about this scenario:

 

my unraid server is running on older AMD APU. I have the emby server running of of the docker but on some of the transcoding operations the CPU is maxed out and the playback is choppy. If I add a GPU like Quadro K2000 that I have laying around, would the docker container be able to take advantage of it?

 

thanks,

 

The last I heard, about middle of last year, emby (and Plex) for that matter both use ffmpeg to do there transcoding, and aren't capable of taking advantage of GPU resources.  So even if you added it emby would not benefit from it.

 

Your best option is to upgrade your AMD APU. Rule of Thumb is you want a CPU with a passmark score of about 2000 for each concurrent HD stream. (So for 2 streams about 4000). If you are doing anything else processor intensive will cut into that as well, so having some overhead is a good idea too.

 

thanks for the clarification guys.

 

I knew EMBY was able to do some kind of GPU accelerated transcoding but it seems like it is just for very specific cases.