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I figured it would be too slow for daily use for my own needs, based on my current setup. I have a Nvidia Shield TV as the Plex server and living room Plex clie
by morganvachon 10y ago
I figured it would be too slow for daily use for my own needs, based on my current setup. I have a Nvidia Shield TV as the Plex server and living room Plex client, with a home-built NAS running OpenMediaVault for media storage. The Shield and NAS are both connected to Gigabit Ethernet, and I occasionally run into slowdowns if I'm trying to watch in the living room, my wife is watching in the bedroom via Roku, and my sister-in-law across the city is watching via her Roku. I've narrowed it down to a saturated network, the Shield was barely breaking a sweat transcoding the files.
With that said, using the Shield as the server greatly improved our previous streaming situation. Before using the Shield, we'd struggle to maintain two good quality streams at once, whether both were local or one was local and one remote. The previous server was no slouch: Core2 Quad with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, but it seems the Shield is well qualified to handle server duties.
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhich CPU was it? I doubt Plex are using the latest ffmpeg, but I saw big jumps between the i7 920, 2600k and then finally the 6800k. That said, my current Plex box is an Atom C2758, which seems to handle 1-2 streams just fine (1 direct, 1 transcode).
- morganvachon 10y agoCore2 Quad Q8400. That machine is now being used as a Linux/BSD testbed every now and then, and it's still plenty fast enough for modern desktop duties. The other concern the Shield mitigates is power inefficiency; that C2Q is a power hungry beast, and the entire Shield box uses less wattage at full load than the Intel CPU alone at idle.