Hi,
Since other topics are closed, is there any way you can help set expectations for those of us that have moved from Intel to AMD based systems running Channels Server in a container on Linux?
I see that technically it's possible if you roll your own so hoping this is on the roadmap? Or if not just give us the nod, there are so many media platforms these days having a one stop shop is fairly rare and I can move the media stuff to jellyfin and just stick with the DVR aspects of Channels.
After running hyper converged for a number of years, I concluded that some apps are much easier to maintain using the old seperate NAS and server approach. I installed Channels DVR and Plex on a N100 Windows box with the storage on a NAS. This is a delightfully simple and stable approach. Even with the tiny N100 CPU I had so many cycles left over that I was able to move some of my management apps to VMs under Hyper-V. I still run some containers on my NAS yet I'm no longer dealing with configuration conflicts, resource sharing issues and things breaking when a component is upgraded.
I run Channels-DVR on an LXC running Ubuntu with Proxmox. The container currently is sitting on one of my Proxmox hosts that is a Corei5 8th gen NUC. The only time I find the CPU usage is high is when commercial detection is running but it doesnt matter really if that takes 5min per recording instead of 2min.
I have also run the same LXC container on a Proxmox host with an AMD 5500GT and the only difference I noticed was the faster commercial detection.
I don't use transcoding myself as I just watch my recorded content back at its original quality but I tested my Nvidia 1060 and after setting Channels-DVR to use Nvec encoding tick box, I was able to use transcoding faster than I could watch the stream.
Personally I just find Channels-DVR works great in both Linux and in a container. Although LXC's can be different to Docker type containers in some areas.
Actually it must be popular to run the same setup I have as there is a Proxmox Community Script that automatically sets it all up for you someone has already made:
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=channels&category=Media+%26+Streaming
How long did it take to write? Might be longer than the entire time spent watching.