Alex Kretzschmar

a normal developer adjacent person.

I don't need to know every, every intricacy.

So for me, it's like this, this has allowed something to exist in the world that I would have really liked to have seen 10 years ago when building my first server.

Uh, and you know, it's, it's taken the information from being a flat text file to being something interactive that people can kind of

enjoy, hopefully.

So, you know.

It's crowdsourced.

So you see up in the top right-hand corner, you can clone the Git repo to your server.

And then you could just run the benchmark script, and then it will pull down a Jellyfin container because it just uses FFmpeg.

It pulls down some drone footage that I edited together a couple of years ago into a test file.

And then it will just encode those files in different codecs.

So it will do a CPU software encode to give you an idea of the raw horsepower of your CPU.

It will then jump into the QuickSync engine, which is the hardware transcoding thing built into your CPUs.

So it does 1080p, it does 4K 8-bit HEVC, and then 4K 10-bit HEVC hardware encodes.

And so you can kind of see a graph

You can kind of see on the graph the performance of the newer chips is a lot better, as you would expect.

But the energy usage also goes up.

So it's like trying to find that sweet spot between energy usage, performance, price, etc.

So yeah, crowdsourced information.

This is not a scientific experiment of super high accuracy, but it's the best we've got in the real world.