Yeah, that’s a fancy 11 year old Intel chip I’m using. I should point out that some of my 4GB of RAM is stolen by the integrated video …
I’ve got a few 10TB SATA drives attached with ZFS. The BIOS doesn’t like the big drives but FreeBSD/FreeNAS/ZFS saw them immediately. As you can imagine, a significant portion of my RAM goes to the ZFS ARC.
Most of my media is 1080p, except some trashy TV and ripped DVDs.
For the few things I’ve tried at 4K, I used h265 10bit and made sure I could direct play them. They work fine locally over good WiFi, to both an ATV4K and a Roku TV.
I also made and kept the 1080p h264 copy so other devices can still direct play.
I only tested a few as a novelty. I can see the difference, I just don’t care enough. They’re brutally slow to encode and … well, we’ve been discussing how slow our computers are.
If you’re after 4K there are some better resources than me:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/info-plex-4k-transcoding-and-you-aka-the-rules-of-4k/
