The system requirements for a Plex Media Server stress that the computer have enough RAM and a fast enough CPU to adequately handle the transcoding and other tasks for remote users. Can the My Cloud Mirror have enough capability to do this?
According to Plex’s NAS Guide, the Mirror has an ArmV7 processor, which is not powerful enough to transcode any video, it can transcode audio only.
Thanks for a clear, definitive answer!
I’ll leave the Plex on my computer, and just use the NAS for holding files, not serving them
I’m currently using this NAS as Plex Media Server. MovieFan.Plex is right, there is not enough power for transcoding. My streams are 98% over the gigabit ethernet direct to my TV, so no transcoding and this is working with no troubles at all.
Don’t think it’s powerful enough really.
I have a few hundred GB of data in my library, pictures there is over 20k, movies, TV series, music etc.
Over 1TB
Yesterday it started doing something with the library, a scan / update? The UI firstly started becoming slow and unresponsive… Kept saying lost connection, and now I can’t access the NAS at all… But I don’t know whether to switch it off and on because the hard drive lights are blinking so it’s doing something… Just so busy / tied up with it that the actual UI is no longer accessible.
I’m new to Plex. I just got a WD My Cloud EX2 that I installed Plex on. I have some MP4 videos that it will play and others it says it isn’t powerful enough. My question is why is it trying to Transcode at all? I can use other media apps on my Roku to access the files directly on my WD NAS with no problems. I can also use all of my PCs/Laptops/Phones/Tablets to access the WD directly with no problems. Why does Plex barf? I like the idea of Plex, but it took several days to index/catalog my 500 Gigs of media and now it won’t play a good bit of the videos. Why can’t I play a video that I have no issues with otherwise? Can the Transcoding be turned off? If there isn’t a fix Plex is going bye-bye. This is stupid.
When playing back video on the Roku, the Plex app uses the built in video player. this video player utilizes the device’s hardware video decoder. Unfortunately, the video decoder does not support a lot of codecs. If the original file you are playing uses the codecs the Roku supports, then PMS does not need to transcode it. In addition to the codecs, there are parameters within the codecs as well used when generating the file that may also make it not compatible with the Roku, so the file gets transcoded as well if it runs into these,
When accessing your media using other software, it is possible that the other software is decoding the video using software so the limitations of the hardware decoder do not come into play. When using the Roku, you can turn off the option to transcode videos, but keep in mind that on a Roku, forcing playback of something that is not compatible can result in the Roku crashing. Go to the global settings in the Plex app, then down to the trancode options, you will see 3 check boxes. Leave only Direct Play enabled, turn the other 2 options off.
Old thread but asking anyways. Can I use the wd my cloud mirror as media storage and still run PMS on my laptop? Would I need to have the WD my cloud hard wired to my laptop our could it access my media over wifi?
I have a cheap ASUS laptop that has run PMS fine for my dvd quality rips. 3-4 clients remote and 3-4 clients local.
