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#Plex media player why transcoding synology nas 1080p
#Plex media player why transcoding synology nas install

If you have Plex Pass you should sign in as sometimes Plex Pass members get access to new versions with features faster than the public release.

Head over to the Plex Download Center and click the Download button for the Plex Media Server.

After upgrading DSM hardware encoding will stop working until Plex is reinstalled as permissions and extensions required for hardware encoding are removed during the upgrade. You should also do this to upgrade when a new version of Plex is release or after installing new versions of the Synology DSM OS on your NAS.

It will replace it and your libraries will be imported. You can use these directions even if you’ve already installed the Plex version provided by Synology.

#Plex media player why transcoding synology nas 1080p

There are reports of the hardware encoding on a DS918+ being enough for 4K, but, personally I’ve only tried up to 1080P without issue. The process for this is super easy and I’ve outlined the steps here with screenshots to help the next person who wants to do this.

#Plex media player why transcoding synology nas install

It turns out, in order to get hardware encoding support with Intel-based Synology NAS devices you need to manually install the 64bit version of Plex on the device. Which, to be fair I was, it worked fine but I did notice Plex glitching on large media and with some digging found that Plex Hardware Encoding wasn’t enabled even though both NAS devices definitely supposed it.

I had the good luck to be recommended the Synology plus series by a friend and love them, originally I had a DS718+ to try out and ended up settling on and purchasing a DS918+ for my use (I’d recommend the DS918+, you’ll never regret having more storage and it supposed flash-stage for caching).Īnother nice thing about the Synology NAS is it’s software manager had Plex listed, so I thought I was home free to just install that and go. Recently I’ve wanted to find a NAS solution that could host media I cared about (music, video, PVR, etc) and present it in a compelling way from all of my devices both in my home and outside of it.