I’m looking to move from a Synology NAS with Plex to get something dedicated that is more powerful/can do more transcoding streams at once.
What is everyone using and how many streams can you transcode at once?
A recent-ish Intel CPU. Even the mini pc’s with a n5000/n95/n100 class CPU will make light work of transcoding nearly everything into x265 using the igpu. The most recent gen will do AV1 decode/transcode as well.
I’m on a raspberry pi so I can’t transcode shit! Instead I just got an Nvidia Shield for the TV so now I don’t have to worry too much about it. Although I do still have trouble with some audio codecs, not sure exactly why I think it has something to do with my tv or HDMI cable.
Chrome also seems to direct play anything, it’s the only reason I keep it installed anymore.