Hi all
I’m considering moving my PMS setup to Linux (probably Ubuntu desktop instead of server as my Linux knowledge so far is pretty limited) from Windows 10.
Is PMS on Linux able do the same as PMS Windows now? I know a few years back there was Silverlight/WebKit issues which made Windows the choice platform but I wondered if this is still the case? Is Linux able to do all the transcoding/serving of media the same as Windows?
The reason I’m thinking of going this way is so that I can integrate Amazon Cloud Drive using ACD_CLI etc - my media storage is getting pretty full and I have a subscription to Cloud Drive and have seen tutorials people have put up.
My setup is:
- Win 10 Pro laptop with the latest PMS install (Core i7 2640m running at 2.80ghz, 8gb ram, 500gb SSD)
- 75mb down fibre broadband, 20mb up
- 8TB Netgear ReadyNas with all media on (mostly full hence wanting to switch to running encrypted out of ACD)
- Various iPhones, iPads, Amazon FireTV’s, PS4, Samsung TV, remote streaming etc - all handled well so far in Windows
The ReadyNas has recently had an update which allows you to backup the NAS to ACD which I have done so technically all my data is now in ACD but I’m using NetDrive to map this out to Windows (along with my old media points for movies, to etc) and I’m not very happy with the speeds I’m getting - to start playback of media direct off the NAS is nearly instant but of the ACD mapped point takes 40 seconds plus.
Or does anyone know if using a VM of Ubuntu installed in Windows, with ACD_CLI etc all running and shared via SAMBA/mapped back to Windows will see acceptable speeds for accessing media/as good as running PMS/acd_cli etc all natively in its own real install?
Thanks
