Shit, I run plex of my synology ds1621+ and it chokes on 4k regularly. This is with a cabled connection. It’s almost certainly the CPU though. These things are weak as hell. What’re you running plex on ?
Shit, I run plex of my synology ds1621+ and it chokes on 4k regularly. This is with a cabled connection. It’s almost certainly the CPU though. These things are weak as hell. What’re you running plex on ?
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Admittedly the server on which it’s running is pretty beefy and I don’t let it transcode. I’ve got enough disk space that if something spends time transcoding I just optimize it to a new version of the file.
By bandwidth I was speaking in terms of network only, but if you were to run it on a simple server that didn’t do any transcoding it might be ok.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ah ok makes sense. Yeah it’s definitely not latency or throughput causing stuttering for me. Gonna definitely be the anemic CPU. Luckily I have an extra laptop that I haven’t used in years that would make a perfect addition to the homelab. Can just through linux on it and use it as a plex/roon server
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah my server is an i5 using an onboard GPU so it’s nothing crazy but it’s got 80TB of drive space, so I optimize for what I put my money into.
Hell, sometimes it’s even easier to copy the data to my gaming rig, transcode it, and rsync it back. If I’m done playing for the night and about to go to bed and I have like a TV show or something I know has to be transcoded, I’ll just queue up a job and let it run while I’m sleeping and script it so it rsyncs everything back when it’s done transcoding.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s definitely a good call. Before I even had a NAS, I’d just throw some movies and stuff on my macbook when I had to travel. Problem is that when you’re loading it up, you think you know what you’ll want to watch and then later you just wish you had different choices.