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Frigate 0.17 NVR Setup Guide: NVIDIA GPU, Docker Compose & go2rtc (2026)

Set up Frigate with Reolink cameras and an NVIDIA GPU using Docker, go2rtc, and TensorRT. This guide shows how to reduce CPU usage, stabilize RTSP streams, and get fast, accurate object detection.

NVIDIA Toolkit Setup on Linux — Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva / Unsplash

NVIDIA Toolkit Setup on Linux

Introduction / why? Now I'm actually a bit of an underdog (AMD) fanboy, but in the end a real tech/nerd uses the best tool available, to do the job. NVIDIA is wearing the King's crown for GPU accelerated functions like video transcoding and hosting private local AI models with Ollama. This guide will walk you through installing the NVIDIA Toolkit, drivers, and setting up your docker runtime to make use of it for GPU acceleration of any dockers you so chose, such as Plex / Jellyfin! Prere

A VRAM quantisization chart, showing tiers starting from 8gb through to 24gb and what you can run. — VRAM Quant chart for reference,

Best GPU for Local LLMs (2026): VRAM Tier List & Buyer's Guide

Looking for the best GPU for local LLMs in 2026? Stop overpaying. Here is the ultimate VRAM tier list and buyer's guide for running Llama, Mistral, and Ollama locally.

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The Architecture of Transcoding: NVENC vs. QuickSync & The AV1 Future (2026)

You've seen, read or heard a lot about transcoding since you've begun your streaming media idealization no doubt. Let's break it down shall we? I've been utilizing home media / streaming servers since roughly 2011 and went through XBMC to Android streaming services, through to Emby, an older media server type I forgot about and finally landed on Plex in 2013. Although this can be a wildly deep topic, I'll just explain what matters for transcoding when it comes to streaming media servers like Ple