The google sheet listing all the capabilities for files/transcoding is helpful but why isn’t the Nvidia Shield listed? I know it’s a “server” and not a player but that doesn’t make a difference lol. I’d like to see what it can and cannot do for all the Shields out there - granted they haven’t made many models but that means we’re all using the same few models.
The Shield isn’t a NAS?
Someone tell him what a nas is lol
While I assume your question is rhetorical… here’s a definition
As for your suggestion:
There’s a dedicated support article focusing on the capabilities (and limits) of the SHIELD as a server:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/221099648-limitations-when-running-plex-media-server-on-nvidia-shield/
In this context, a NAS is a NAS. A shield, is a multi use box, that can do some NAS duties. But it’s not a NAS.
I appreciate all the snide comments (I do know what a NAS is, I have 8 thank you) but perhaps you should direct Plex to rename that sheet because it lists what devices can transcode what kinds of files… and since a SHIELD is something that transcodes it should also be listed therein as there are several models you can purchase and a comparison would be nice. As per the WIKI article: “the term “NAS” can refer to both the technology and systems involved” and all I am using the SHIELD for is basically a NAS because I have all the NAS devices mounted to it so it scans everything everywhere into one library source - instead of 8 different Plex servers displayed in my interface I only now have one which makes it much better. Also in context, I’m using the Shield just for Plex just like the Plex Server apps I have on the other NAS devices, so it is just a NAS for me, that can TRANSCODE files that some of the little NAS units cannot but I would still like to know if I should buy a newer model or not.
Thank you for the link. That information should be added to the google sheet that Plex maintains as it is applicable and pertinent, and they should rename the sheet to “NAS/Plex Server Compatibility” but I’d be nitpicking…
The info in the link doesn’t list all the models of the Shield so it wasn’t helpful. I know that new format AV1 (or whatever it is) is gaining popularity and maybe some newer Shield models support transcoding it (assuming that Plex does).
Just wondering all this as affects my choices with encoding files in the near future. I’d like to stop buying NAS units and large drives to store more media - 80TB is enough thank you lol.
No, it lists what NAS devices.
you didn’t finish your sentence… “what NAS devices… can transcode what kinds of file types and encoding” which in my case applies to my Shield which is nothing but a glorified headless “master” NAS as I use it. I realize others play games on it and do other things, but for me it’s just a NAS. And I use explorer to move files to it, just like a NAS.
lol I didn’t need to go further. You’re mad that a non-nas that can transcode, isnt on a list of nases (is that a word lol). We get it. But that’s why it’s not. It’s not a nas. If they had a list of “devices that can transcode” it would fit.
I’m not mad, I’m just observing that the list in the sheet is a list of servers which is broken down by what they can transcode and what they cannot for use in Plex. The name of the sheet is misleading then as it’s more a list of plex servers. You say tomato, I say tomahto. My Shield is still just another NAS, especially since I never access the interface for it just like any other NAS 
or as the saying goes, if it walks like a duck…
I can put a lot of dirt in my truck but it’s still not called a wheelbarrow 
The NAS list is NAS list. Why argue about it?
You want a different list. Just admit it and move on.
I did… it was stated that a place that comparatively lists the transcoding abilities of the various shield models would be great, especially if already in a place where transcoding abilities are already listed for NAS units that function as plex server (just as the shield does). It’s not a difficult concept.
Funny because that’s what people do every generation especially since the advent of the internets and social media… new slang, renaming old things to new names, etc. i.e. “grandma” is “mee-maw” and “mother” is “baby momma” or any other number of names. It’s called a synonym or a loose association. And btw, if anyone saw your truck loaded with dirt and told you “bring that big wheelbarrow over here”, anyone hearing that would know what you meant. So the shield is just the master NAS. You all need to realize that there is always more than one way to skin a cat, and insisting people follow the rules of grammar and nomenclature is an impossible battle. But be Don Xiote all you want, idc. I asked a simple question and seem to have attracted a few fireflies hell-bent on correcting me when it would have been so much easier just to move on… go watch something in your library instead of correcting posts lol.
I think that was Spanish for “I was wrong”
si, lo estabas
