Why upgrading your cheap streaming stick is the ultimate fix for a buffering Plex NAS ...
Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...
All it takes is one mistyped environment variable and hardware transcoding stops working.
I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...