I understood that using the WIFI got the “your network is not fast enough” issue under control… so your focus should be on understanding what makes some of those files of yours “want” to be transcoded.
There’s a dedicated post on “the rules of 4K streaming” that might help you with that.
Your final conclusion will likely depend on the outcome of that.
As an example…
- if all your transcoding is due to Plex burning the subtitles into your video… you can only “cure” that by either optimizing the file yourself (e.g. burning your subtitles into the video yourself) or go for a stronger CPU
- if the transcoding has nothing to do with the subtitles you can do the math and check if your GPU supports hw-accelerated video transcoding / streaming – in that case it might be cheaper to go with a Plex Pass, making use of that GPU’s capabilities.
