Sounds like a market ready for disruption

They used to encode with h264. I set up a rig 2 years ago with the goal for using that card just couldn’t source cameras at a decent price that use the olde codec. It’s actually pretty difficult to find that anymore. Also, they need to decode streams for processing for things like object detection. That doesn’t work without decoding being done on each stream first.

I am open to being wrong on this I just want to be certain before I get to the spending money stage. Can you show me where you got that information?

That is an interesting option but I’m not sure 4 gracemont cores could do full IPS in opnsense.

Incorrect. The built in quicksync is adequate for a limited number of simultaneous streams. Considering I plan for frigate to handle multiple cameras on this machine I will need more streams.

Correct. I actually would prefer not to have ipmi

To be fair, how much longer is Intel going to be around?

I want zenarmor and suricata. Intel N series chips cannot handle that. The dGPU is just needed for handling media decode and encode, not actual rendering.

Well I would be playing over the wired network with an appleTV4k in the living room. I don’t game much at all but there are a few upcoming games I want to enjoy. Is there a list somewhere of which games dislike VMs?

My concern with CPU transcoding is it just won’t be able to keep up with all the concurrent streams whereas a GPU will do so effortlessly. Intel GPUs have the best encoders second only to Apple. AMD…has the worst.

Just a little apology to anyone who read, I definitely rambled on here. I’m overrun with ideas and just don’t know how to trim this all down

Oh yea, copyparty could do that. I might just do that too. My issue is more how do I grant them access to my network to get the thing tough? I currently use wireguard profiles and lock down where they can reach with rules and shit on a firewalla on a per account basis but that’s really complex and inelegant. It works and would working copypasta, but I kind of wish there was a simple webUI where I could define what a WireGuard user should be able to reach on my network with simple checkboxes by rules I have created over time. Probably wouldn’t tie into firewalla nicely though it could be more likely with OPNsense.

Hmm. Surely someone must have thought of that already. It would make adopting things like copypasta much simpler and less risky.

You made this on your phone on the bus ride to and from work.

I cleaned the cat box yesterday and considered that an accomplishment.

Fuck.

He’s a cute little fella…

Wait, what does this actually do? It looks like it isn’t an emulator or a front end so….what’s it?

I’m probably just going to do a UPS in the rack.

WireGuard is the fastest method, it’s free, there is no reason not to use it.

I have a little mini server I built that fits into an old power mac G4 cube shell. I want to do something with GPUs now so that shell isn’t going to be an option anymore. I like the idea of having one box in the basement that does all the heavy lifting and everything just calls into.

Why do I need an Intel CPU if they sell Intel GPUs separately that have their own encode/decode engines?

With 2 pinned CPU cores, pci passthru of an Intel dual port NIC, RAM disk for logs, it should be fine. I see no issue.

Throw zenamor and suricata at the OPNsense VM