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Your old office PC is secretly a transcoding beast for Plex and Jellyfin with one cheap upgrade
Having a personal media server that's online 24/7 is an underrated luxury. It gives you complete control over your media, ...
Every self-hosting enthusiast runs a home media server. Whether it's Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin-based, a NAS chock-full of movies and shows is basically the norm. For me, the choice of software remains ...
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 ...
John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...
tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...
Synology’s DS216Play NAS is a middling performer, but there’s no better NAS box available for streaming multimedia features and 4K transcoding. Synology’s rich app environment allows it to also ...
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