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Get a Nvidia GPU or for less power get a n100 mini PC and run the media server there. A n100 can do a few transcodes in parallel and only use five watts while doing it.
What you’re doing wrong is using an old server without any kind of hardware assist.
What are you trying to accomplish here? How many simultaneous transcodes? Any 4K? If you have subs, are they all SRT?
I'm using a r720xd with a p2000. When I first started I just had the CPU to encode with. What I found helped was setting a lower bit rate limit which allowed the CPU to transcode it fast enough.
Once I got a p400 that helped, but limits to 3 transcodes hurt the overall use since I would possibly have more than three hitting it at once. That's when the p2000 came along.
Bandwidth is important as well, so I still limit outside connections to 5mbps.
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