Hello,
I’m considering purchasing HomeRun Extend as it includes transcoding. But I wonder if Plex will be transcoding the video anyway that the extra I pay for it will be wasted. Is there a benefit to Plex and the system Plex runs on if Extend is transcoding the data? Or will HomeRun Connect be all that I need? I plan on connecting HomeRun by Ethernet to my OS X Mac Mini Server.
I love the extend as I run plex on a low power device that can’t do the transcoding (pi) and the clients play the h.264 streams natively it works great, also file size is lower.
It can be converted on the server if you get the connect, but that was the reason I opted for the extend and I find it to be worthwhile.
@pcapazzi - I asked the same question, I was told by either a Ninja or employee that the transcoding of the device helps as it offloads that from Plex. Set Plex to original quality and set the extend to transcode.
Mine has been working well.
[EDIT] - It was an employee, here is the post: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/274169/another-question-homerun-devices#latest
keithah was the one answering.
Thanks guys. In the other post you referred me to it looks like there was a discount that I missed out on. :-/
to me it depends on your servers power. I bought the extend but if I buy more tuners I would get the connect. The extend does a good job but to me its transcoding quality isn’t as good. I have a fairly decent PC I use as a server though it is getting old and I have basically disabled transcoding on the extend. Also if you were going to stream directly to tablets and phones the extend is nice because you can set the transcode level in the app, channels for example.
+1 on the Extend for me. Can’t see a quality difference between the Extends transcoded and the direct antenna to the tv. I don’t do Live TV via Plex so I can’t comment on that but for Plex DVR it’s a win for me.