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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology

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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I've got a full *arr setup so far - just need to iron out a few kinks before I can consider it "done". Mainly just dealing with my server computer being incredibly slow with - I assume - transcoding.

[–] AtariDump 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you’re steaming on your local network you should be able to disable transcoding on your clients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ahh, I didn't know that was an option. I'll give it a shot - thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Man for me it's the iGPU via Intel.

I have an i3 with an Intel IGPU and it'll murder any transcode I throw at it.

If you don't want to rebuild.. I think a quadro 2000? Is the sweet spot for cost vrs power.

But do your own research... I'm really rusty when it comes to suggesting gpus for servers.

https://www.serverbuilds.net/ is a great resource for that stuff. They have handy transcode guides there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, my current server is an old all-in-one, so adding a GPU will be difficult. My plan is to make due for now until I can get some proper hardware.

The current plan is - rather than bringing the hardware up to spec - I'll try bringing the spec down to the hardware, by pre-encoding everything to something like H264. (While keeping originals, since I have the space.)

Thank you for the response and the resource, though! I'll definitely check it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

When my server crashes.. I'm going tiny. Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N100(up to 3.4GHz), 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB PCIe SSD, Desktop Computer Support 4K Dual Display/USB3.2/WiFi 6/BT5.2/Gigabit Ethernet for Home/Office https://a.co/d/gZYihvd

And a 3.2 enclosure

Mediasonic USB 3.2 4 Bay 3.5” SATA Hard Drive Enclosure – USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type C | USB-C (HF7-SU31C) Support 18TB HDD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078YQHWYW

And you're welcome!

Good luck!