What do you run Plex Media Server on?
I'm looking for a way to keep something plugged in all the time to run Plex Media Server so I don't have to keep a laptop on. It will live in a little cubby above the refrigerator with the router. I...
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GordonThree wrote:
If transcoding is a concern, the Pi has hardware accelerated h.264 encoding and decoding. I believe up to 30hz encoding and 60hz decoding at 1080p. There's newer boards based on more powerful SoC that will transcode h.265 and 4k video if that's your application.
like i said, if you can direct play it which is hardware based, no issue, but if you have video files that are not direct play then either you need a server that can transcode, or you need to re-encode. encoding is not always fun and can potentially take a long time to do.
