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But it tries to transcode my already compatible files with my Apple TV and can kill an ARM NAS home server
by CSDude 9y ago
But it tries to transcode my already compatible files with my Apple TV and can kill an ARM NAS home server
- vkoskiv 9y agoCan confirm. I've run plex on a xeon box for a year or two. I tried moving over to a raspberry pi to save power, but it simply couldn't handle the encoding tasks.
- thrillgore 9y agoI tried out Plex Media Server on a Atom server (well, it was a co-opted Eee Box running Ubuntu) and I swear it screamed in pain when it had to transcode. I ended up "obtaining" much of my media in H.264 just to avoid transcoding. I now run Plex as a Docker image on a Proxmox-equipped home server using an AMD Fusion 2.8GHz w/ Radeon GPU. Plex appears to be well tuned to use the CPU and the GPU to do transcoding, but does stutter if you don't Analyze your library often (this presumably lets Plex transcode in advance).
- Veratyr 9y agoDunno if it's an option but the NVIDIA Shield TV can either direct play pretty much anything with Kodi or it can act as a low power Plex server with a hardware video encoder.
- nacho2sweet 9y agoThe Shield is great, and can handle 2-3 transcodes at a time just sitting there silent. Can share with both me and partners parents who have Roku built in TVs. However I have a lot of h265 content and it will transcode stuff back to h264 and suck up bandwidth/processing when I wish it wouldn't but I think that is a limitation of Roku.
- Veratyr 9y agoYeah, that's a limitation of Roku, the older ones don't support HEVC.
- unixhero 9y agoGet a proper Xeon
- CSDude 9y agoYeah right, just for a home made NAS server