[doctorpangloss]

You can transcode in realtime in software to your TV. You don't need the GPU at all. Even on ancient USFF PCs.

[steelbrain]

I'll tell my TV you said that and I'll see if it stops buffering during playback :)

[selcuka]

> You can transcode in realtime in software

Sometimes you want faster-than-realtime encoding, such as when backing up your video archive.

[doctorpangloss]

A CPU using all its cores is much faster than realtime.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

This doesn't appear to be true. My Plex media server is ancient and it really struggles if it has to do any kind of transcoding. Definitely can't handle high bitrate 4k stuff.