I 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 ende

I 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).