Hardware transcoding with QNAP models TVS-x73 and TVS-x63

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There’s been some issues with 4.4.1. ChuckPA made a sticky.

Public Service Announcement: QTS 4.4.1

28 Oct 2019 Per conversation about issues with QTS 4.4.1.1081 and 4.4.1.1101, QNAP has advised Plex that QTS 4.4.1 has been withdrawn back to BETA status for stability and performance reasons. Observed issues: Dashboard fails to populate Network file services I/O performance extremely slow Unexplained system lock-up. Corrective Action Download previous firmware from QNAP if not already resident locally. https://www.qnap.com/en/download Manually install firmware (Control Panel -> Firm…

Nvidia has an NVDEC GPU Matrix to help you choose a card in the future.

Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

I’d probably just run an Intel NUC or AppleTV4K.