thumdinger
Thanks. I’ll be the first to admit a lack of knowledge with respect to CPU architecture - very interesting. I think you’ve answered my question - I can’t have QuickSync AND lanes.
Given I can’t have both, I suppose the question pivots to a comparison of performance-per-watt and number of simultaneous streams of an iGPU with QuickSync vs. a discrete GPU (likely either nVidia or Intel ARC), considering a dGPU will increase power usage by 200W+ under load (27c/kWh here). Strong chance I am mistaken though, and have misunderstood QuickSync’s impressive capabilities. I will keep reading.
I think the additional lanes are of greater value for future proofing. I can just lean on CPU without HWaccel. Thanks again!
I use the Amplipi from Micro-Nova for whole-home audio and I love it. It’s local, open source and has a Home Assistant integration.
The main unit has 6 zones, but expansions units can be added. I think it supports up to 4 simultaneous streams. We use 2x AirPlay streams, and a turn table connected via RCA, but many other options are supported. They detail it all on their website and GitHub repo.
Thanks for the clue. I haven’t been able to find anything in my config. Is there supposed to be a text field for setting auxiliary parameters, or are we just referring to advanced options here? Do they need to be configured via the shell in Scale? I’ve included screenshots of my SMB/share config below.
Next step will be to just install Scale fresh and re-config from scratch, importing the existing pool. This will hopefully eliminate any odd parameters that shouldn’t have been carried over from BSD.
Also, and I’m just venting now, why isn’t any of this mentioned in the Truenas article for the migration, or the supplemental “Preparing to Migrate…” article…?
https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/gettingstarted/migrate/migratingfromcore/
https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/gettingstarted/migrate/migrateprep/
Samba Config
Advanced Settings
Config for a new share, created for a new test dataset:
I have tried both the default share parameters, and the private SMB dataset and shares options for Purpose