If you're planning a Plex server or upgrading a current one, transcoding performance is probably a primary concern for you. We've come a long way from the days of 720p and limited bitrates, but ...

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 ...

My homelab Debian server runs on an old PC, hosting containerized services via Docker on Portainer, including Jellyfin. The server didn't have a dedicated GPU, so Jellyfin relied entirely on CPU ...

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What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...

Live transcoding on the web has quickly evolved into the optimal workflow for streaming live events. In this schema, you send a single efficient stream to the cloud, transcode the stream to produce a ...

I'm in the design phase of building out a server for colocation, and one of the things that would be potentially useful on it would be hardware video transcoding. I don't want to use Intel, and ARM ...

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Convenience costs you with Plex, but the alternatives require more work.