I have to be honest, I don't know what half of these options do, so I'm left to digging around forums looking for good settings. ffmpeg -y -i INPUT -v 1 -threads auto -vcodec libx264 -b 500k -bt 175k ...

I'm trying to get a feel for how well the machine I picked up will handle being a Plex server, so I'm giving some test encodes with QuickSync enabled(I think). However, CPU usage is way higher then ...