Probably why they’re sending out emails right now saying they’re transitioning to mandatory 2FA…

Not a huge deal for watching h265, since Plex still just transcodes to h264 (if it ever needs to transcode).

But it’s nice if you use something like tDarr to convert your h264s to h265.

But, just the overall improvement in speed/quality is nice when you jump up a generation in QuickSync.

7th-9th Gen uses a newer version of QuickSync than 6th gen had, which adds h265 encoding and better overall image quality.

I’d lean toward one of the 7th gen CPUs if you’re using Plex.

I’d been floating a similar idea for MAME arcade high scores.

Currently, when I play a game on my arcade cabinet, the marquee image gets a date and the game’s name stamped on it by ImageMagick, then gets uploaded so it can display on my blog. (yes – I haven’t played since March… I should really play on my cab more)

I kind of wanted to automate a high score list on my blog. Though I’m fairly sure that’s going to be considerably more work.

Truthfully, you really only need Intel 7th gen or higher.