Now your home theater is playing the same quality shit as your tablet unless you want to store two copies of the same content, and you spend hours (if not days) making a high quality re-encode.The best part about a Plex server is that it doesn’t require a dedicated machine to operate, but it’s often a good idea to set aside one particular Plex server hardware device to use exclusively for that purpose. Without transcoding, that now means you have to re-encode to the lowest common denominator with your codec/container/bitrate. Despite what you say, many devices still only support H264 L4.0 at 20Mbps or lower (latest gen mobile devices/streaming STBs are finally supporting L4.1+ H264) which means you can't even support blu ray rips without re-encoding or transcoding. You almost always have to compromise between quality or compatibility. There are plenty of direct play solutions out there if you want less options. It's probably also better than 90% of the material I could get through a streaming service even on a larger display.īut why comment in a Plex build thread if you hate transcoding? That's the whole reason why Plex is so successful in the first place it allows dynamic LAN/WAN/internet capabilities with transcoding. That 10Mbps transcode on a 5" screen using "shitty" x264 settings is also overkill for the device. So do you have magical devices with every codec/container, H264 level support, and unlimited bandwidth through every medium, everywhere you go? That Athlon II x 2 255 system would make for a fine client on a TV that will direct play bascially all your content and get you using that 2600k as a server CPU (it literally would not be able to transcode 1 1080p stream) and audio formats since some devices will not play multichannel in cetrain forms and requires a full transcode Just depends on the clients at each TV the encoding your videos are in. That being said, likely not all 5 TVs will be in use at the same time or perhaps 1-2 will be direct playing the content and will not need transcoding. without anything else utilizing the CPU on the server you 2700k stock is only 8,000 so that will be 4 transcodes at the same time. that is going to be a high end x4 with hyperthreading or 6-8 core CPU.Ī i7 4790k, 4770k, 6700k, 4820k, 3770k, FX-9370, get you there or close. So 5 TV all at the same time needs 10000 on cinebench score. So their general recomendation is that for every 1080p transcode you need to do you need 2000 points on cinebench
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