I’ve been trying to setup Tdarr to transcode using my AMD integrated GPU instead of my CPU, but all I’m finding online is people using nvidia cards…well, I don’t have one of those, but I have an AMD CPU with integrated gpu, so I wanted to use that, but apparently that’s extremely uncommon and I can’t find any working solutions.

Edit: I’m running Tdarr in a docker container on my OMV media server.

Edit 2: I’ve gotten it working, but the compression is nonexisting. A h264 -> h265 transcode increases file size by ~5%.

Needed to add my Tdarr container to the render group and pass through the dev/dri/renderD128 folder.

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    I actually just got it working, after spending all day yesterday. The speed is magnificent, but the compression rate is absolutely abysmal. When i use the integrated GPU an h264 encoded file end up taking up 5-10% more space when converted to h265, whereas when just use CPU an h264->h265 is around a 45% reduction in size. I have no use for speed if it doesn’t reduce file size at all.

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      6 months ago

      Besides maybe confusing the codecs, hardware encoders, especially the AMD ones, are always less space efficient than software encoders.

      If you want to convert video for long-term storage, please use a software encoder.

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        6 months ago

        Fair enough, I just saw so many using GPUs and how much faster it was and assumed it was the same size-wise with the files. I’m getting ~40fps with my CPU, so it’s going to take forever to do all of it.

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      6 months ago

      Uh… What?

      GPU you are converting from 265 to 264 and expecting smaller file sizes, but CPU you are going from 264 to 265?

      If compression methods/codecs are equal, the hardware shouldn’t affect compression