HowToGeek reports that while Raspberry Pi devices are common in DIY Plex setups, they lack the processing power for smooth transcoding when media formats are incompatible with playback devices. This ...
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 ...
At $200, a Pi Plex setup probably isn't what you need.
I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...