alt Hacker News>I've put it in quotes as the effort required from these chips for streaming transcoding is so low these days
What's your source for this? Transcoding without acceleration is incredibly expensive, especially for 4K content, and especially for 4K HDR content.
Even a single 4K HDR -> 1080p transcode takes a huge amount of resources.
The Asustor Lockerstor4 Gen3 has a Quad-Core Ryzen Embedded V3C14 and cannot transcode 4K content.
Meanwhile, an old Kaby Lake Intel chip does so just fine but only because its QSV can handle h265.
Thats interesting. My 5 year old Ryzen laptop can transcode 4k faster than realtime, which is what I mean mean by "these chips". Modern Ryzen, which is what the subject is about.
Quick Sync is invaluable for low powered processors, my old Intel embedded Wyze can do several streams.