- #Mac mini plex media server transcoding pro
- #Mac mini plex media server transcoding software
- #Mac mini plex media server transcoding mac
The point being you get a lot more for a lot less if you avoid USFF’s and go SFF instead, the ‘small tax’ is quite large. Just before Christmas I grabbed a Lenovo S510 SFF i3-6100/4GB/500GB from eBay, £60 delivered on a BIN, desktop CPU, easily upgradable, cheap RAM, LP PCIe, better cooling, heck a new Pi4 4GB set-up costs more. Not to tread on anyone’s toes, but unless you specifically need an ultra SFF, (great ESXi clusters btw) my advice is don’t, and that’s coming from someone with 5 of them for various jobs.
#Mac mini plex media server transcoding software
Also consider if for example you pipe live TV to Plex, you may have to transcode that, also any unsupported video will be done in software, along with any audio transcodes and certain types of subtitles, so you will still need a CPU that can handle some form of software transcoding ideally. When it comes to Plex, HW Transcoding requires a (paid) Plex Pass, stick to 6th gen intel+iGPU onwards, low end is fine as long as it has the 6th gen iGPU as 5th gen lacked decode support from memory and bugger all really changed after that. I used to tell people transcoding 4K was a bad idea and transcoding 4K HDR was stupid, then they fixed tone mapping, so it’s now not stupid at least, but if you must transcode 4K, doing it in hardware is the only logical way and it’s still really not best practice. I don’t plan on using the Synology or the server for anything over than media playback at present. I am planning on using a SAB/SONARR/RADARR solution to organise the library for me, I am also potentially going to do most of the administration via a Remote Desktop connection on a laptop from downstairs.Īll internet connections within my household, bar the obvious hand held devices, are Ethernet.Īre Intel NUCs a decent solution? I would like something with a little grunt should we decide to invest in a UHD TV in the coming future.
#Mac mini plex media server transcoding pro
We use a PlayStation 4 Pro as a media player downstairs and have an Amazon Fire Box as the media player in the bedroom, hence the requirement for transcoding.Īs the Synology does not support transcoding I have been looking at different options for a server which essentially reads from the NAS.
#Mac mini plex media server transcoding mac
The Mac had since died (presumably a logic board failure, it too was very old). My fiendish plan was to emulate a setup I had during the summer where I utilised a Mac Mini with a thunderbolt external SSD as a media server but using the Synology as an all in one solution. I have a Synology 212j, a very old NAS with 4tb of storage and no transcode support via Plex media server. Sorry if this is the wrong sub forum to ask this in, the question could be asked in numerous places here.
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