After my Synology crashed a couple weeks ago I reinstalled everything and figured I wanted to try using the (official) Docker version of PMS and have been using it since. I do sometimes feel that the SPK version was more efficient with transcoding, etc. if I look at CPU usage. Is this possible or should they be equaly efficient in resource usage? I know the linuxserver docker container has the ability to specify the architecture but my guess is the plex docker container does this automaticly? Or would the Linuxserver docker container, with the architecture specified, be more efficient?
Really interested to get the best performance out of my 918+ setup
Docker would be more inefficient as you’re adding a layer of abstraction between running PMS and your actual OS. As PMS is available natively for Synology, and you have Plex Pass which enables hardware transcoding, there’s really no reason for using a docker image on Synology imho.
Thanks for the feedback, I figure I go back to the syno package then. It was a nice experiment but I do feel that it is much more responsive then the docker version. I thought hardware support would produce a likewise experience but it turns out it’s a quite a bit less efficient with system resources as it seems. Thanks again, installing spk as we speak
