Don't Make This Mistake Building a Home Server!

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[walidjami]

Perfect timing for this video! Especially with LTT coming out with their Plex video

[SpaceGringosD]

The production quality of your videos are amazing. You def deserve way more subs! Thanks for this quality free content!

[Felix-vehs]

I actually disabled hardware transcoding as I never have more than two 1080p streams at once and it's mostly a straight stream.
This makes it much easier to migrate my Plex VM around as it no longer relies on hardware passthrough. :)

[buildanddrive]

LOL... I thought I had hit the jackpot when I found this board on Ebay for $100... glad I watch wolfgangs channel!!!!

[thatdecade]

Saved my life probably. I just bought a supermicro with an IPMI. Read the bios manual, and found the onboard / external vga option. Searched the motherboard model on reddit and found many people unable to enable quicksync. None of them suggested setting vga to external in the bios.

[dinkidink]

I've bought an AM4 based server motherboard along with a 5950x so if I ever do want hardware decoding I was always going to have to go with a dedicated GPU. Definitely something to be mindful of though.

[diogomild]

How timely! I just finished setting up pi-kvm with an aimos kvm switch, great piece of software!!

[RaulRuizH]

I have an Asrock - e3c246d4u motherboard with IPMI, to enable hardware acceleration I have to use a secret BIOS menu (ctrl+alt+F3 while booting) and enable multi-monitor to have the Quicksync working in Jellyfin. FYI

[cootason]

another solution is to possibly provide the additional Episode content using a merge episode plugin and having the 720 - 1080 - 4k files select-able minimizing trans-coding required. its a lot of extra files but if you want to minimize the trans-coding that could be an option. absolutely love the content here as I have an old 8700k cpu and motherboard that i could put to use till i get a proper low power setup.

[justastrangedude]

You know exactly what I want to watch! Danke

love the pikvm. Made it real easy to manage the server remote.

[luckshouldbeshared]

WOLFGANG PLEASE SHOW US HOW TO SETUP A HOME SERVER SORT OFF LIKE YOU HAVE.
At least how to:
-Set up a Ubuntu Server(With the cool homer page)
-How Secure your Ubuntu Server
-How to set up Nextcloud

PLeAse SenPAi NoTIcE Me

[Ky-vvnj]

Quadro P2200, using it for both Plex and Jellyfin. They both work great.

[zyldas]

On ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P9D-I Series (motherboard) you can disable (literally turn off) both: on-board graphics card and iKVM module. It does not change anything. The built-in processor graphics module (some kind of HD Graphics, depending on the exact processor model) stays *disabled* and *undetected* anyway.

[spc]

Decoding should be done on client side, download footage in h.264, disable server side conversion.

[tommot]

@Wolfgang's Channel - Have you got a neat solution for connecting to your jellyfin server without a (static) IPv4 and only a dynamous IPv6 address? With neat i am thinking about using a Fire TV Stick Jellyfin App without modifying the Fire TV Stick. Just make it accessible for everyone who wants it (and got the connect data and a account to log in to it).

[SilnC]

Haven't tried this on my server yet, but I had issues with the IPMI on my X570D4U that seems to come from the same problem. When the iGPU is activated, the KVM does not output video. Luckily I can do without hardware encoding

[transonit]

a great tip you should know when building a new server

[basix]

Nice tip, this is something I wasn't aware of! Btw have you considered getting a cheap gpu for decoding?

[nielderfp]

What model MB? I'm thinking of building a NAS with Unraid but don't need video decoding etc just a file server.