How does one know if Intel Quicksync is being used? Not really concern about the streaming more so the Commercial stuff. Running i5-9600K on Ubuntu 18.04
In your web UI for the DVR server, locate the Settings > Transcoder section:
If Hardware is an option, then QSV is being used.
How come I dont see Hardware as an option for Deinterlacer. running a macmini
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If you don't see it as an option, it might not be available on your particular platform.
That option was there before I even had an Intel CPU (just got 4 days ago). Was using Ryzen 2600X prior to.
GPU hardware encoding/decoding wont speed up comskip, if that's what you mean.
I think you can set Comskip to do hardware encoding/decoding.
Not to speed it up. Just don’t Use the CPU.
How do?
hardware_decode=0 ; Set to 1 to enable hardware accelerated video decoding, only available in donator version ... You might get erratic results so you really need to test on the same file with it on and off.
I thought i read somewhere here that Hardware acceleration is not supported on newer intel chips, like 9 series and higher for Channels.
There was a recent pre-release that included a newer build of Ffmpeg with initial support for current-gen Intel chips.
O. well, maybe then the OP can install and try that then?
True that
I meant by default. I don't recall anyone mentioning they enabled it and it worked.
Most users of Channels have their eyes glaze over when you mention editing files, reading or creating json, dropping to terminal/command line to run curl, etc.
lowres=0 (0-10)
;Enables resolution reduction, setting to 10 makes comskip choose the best value automatically
;;This only works for certain types of video encoding, may not work for h.264 encoded video and may deliver bad results when used with hardware_decode=1
Channels uses lowres=1
Yeah forgot about most users not knowing they need to provide their own INI ... I personally do not use Hardware decoding in Comskip because my Server runs on an I7.
I use ...
lowres=10
I use the automatic commercial detection
The one that comes with Channels DVR server uses the donator version of comskip.
That's what we're talking about.
I understand. I was saying that in reference to that I don't customized the .ini at all. Any major benefits to doing so? I've never had an issue with commercials cutting out the show at all. Most that happens is that the commercial will go about 5 seconds in before the automatic commercial skip happens on FireTV client.
If you want to try hardware_decode or change the number of CPU threads it uses.