Enable 3D HW acceleration on VMWare Workstation 10 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am so far unable to get Plex/ffmpeg to recognize the integrated GPU in my Core i7-8700 CPU. Improve performance of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox on Windows 10 host. Hardware acceleration is making chrome laggy, with NVIDIA 390.48 in.
What OSes are better for a 'Home Theater' TV computer?? That's a serious question; I recently replaced a creaking old Mac Mini (that couldn't do 4K) with a new Dell, after going a little bicurious with respect to Windows 10 (for software development work)... and, surprisingly, it's a complete and utter shitshow.I was astonished, actually; I had assumed Windows would be better than macOS as a TV computer, other than integration with Apple services (Apple Music, my kids photos as screensaver).
![Plex Plex](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125754572/792567762.png)
Nothing could be further from the truth. It's a shitshow. 100% of Windows media players are garbage (VLC included, and there is no Movist). They can't play high-bitrate video without stuttering (on way better hardware), they show some ungodly mishmash of scaled UI and tiny unreadable UI on a 4K TV, for each player you install (about 10, so far, for me) you have to google for an hour to make sure they aren't malware (and of course almost all of them nominally are, trying to install all sorts of insane adware shit during the install phase, although that is par for the course on Windows)...
It's been 2 months and I saw the new Mac Mini and despite the 200%+ markup on storage I couldn't help but think Hmmm....
My TV also has at its disposal Xbox (OK but not great), PS4 (pretty shit), iOS (Apple TV, pretty shit), and Nintendo Switch (has no TV computer features at all, basically).
So what OSes are you talking about? Linux?? Android?
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I've seen a bit of negative feedback regarding the state of hardware transcoding here, and I just want to say it's been a huge benefit for me. I've got about 5 users that connect to my server and they all use clients that require transcoding. My Ivy Bridge 3570k could only handle about 1-2 streams in the past and I was considering upgrading to used server class hardware but didn't really want to deal with the cost, power consumption and space requirements.
A quick stress test of Intel Quicksync hardware transcoding netted me 3 simultaneous Remuxed source files transcoding to 1080p 20mbps with no problems. I feel like I could probably do a fourth or fifth if I closed some other resource heavy apps that were running at the same time. Since I have very few Remux quality files in my library, I think I'll be able to handle all my users just fine now that I've got hardware transcoding.
I haven't investigated the quality on my large screen yet but it looked good on my smaller devices I was testing with.
Also, the response time when starting playback or skipping around the timeline is much improved.
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