ali-ramadhan
commented
1 week ago Are you sure that your storage media is not the bottleneck?
I've only been playing around with this script for a bit, but I've noticed that 1 GPU thread (or NVENC instance) can read from my HDD at ~100 MiB/s. With HDDs topping out at 200-250 MiB/s, 2 GPU threads are enough to saturate one HDD.
So if all your media is one HDD then you won't see any speedup using more than 2 GPU threads. In fact, you may see a slowdown as different threads/processes compete for resources and thrash the HDD.
stevezau
Crunch41
Just following up on my issue with gpu hw acceleration not working as requested, I left the script running for as of the console logs below just over 6 hours with my gpu & cpu threads both set to 6 threads & upon checking I have a variety of mkv files that can apparently use my gpu & a bunch that won't as shown by my console logs. I also tested with only gpu threads in my env file & the same issue occurs but upon relaunching the script everything appears to be using the gpu as it should so think that resolved itself.
Looking at some of those generation times even some of the files with "HW = True" seem much slower than if I were to just directly generate the thumbnails with plex itself. My PC is running with a 4090 so for it to be functioning like this seems extremely odd but granted this might just be a h265 + limitations of gigabit SMB issue & things are running as expected.
No matter the amount of threads this still seems to just be overly slow in general so not sure what's going on with this one but I've added my console logs below.
The script will also remain frozen upon starting it with something along the lines of this until it seems to complete a file then it will start to show files being generated & the status of hw acceleration.
2024/10/09 03:10:08 | ℹ️ - Getting the media files from library 'Movies' 2024/10/09 03:10:09 | ℹ️ - Got 243 media files for library Movies ⠧ Working... ━━━━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12% 0:00:07 30/243