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Plex transcoding is killing your streams (and your NAS isn't to blame)

When Plex starts buffering or stuttering, it's easy to assume that hardware problems are to blame, especially if you're using a NAS. But that often isn't the case. With Plex, the overall setup is so ...
Geeky Gadgets

How to add Plex hardware transcoding to your Synology NAS for smoother playback

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 ...
Ars Technica

Building media server with a twist

Hello, Ars! Long time lurker here, first time poster. Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, so please move it if it's not. As the title states, I'd like to set up a personal media server on ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Review: DVEO Brutus V

Brutus V can deliver streams over UDP, RTSP, RTMP, MPEG-DASH, and HLS with the AV1, H.264, and H.265 codecs. Brutus V is geared for IP delivery and does transcoding to various flavors. It’s capable of ...