I am really sorry if i opened topic in wrong section but i am having troubles navigating in this forum. I need help with building mine home dedicated plex server.
I am only going to stream videos from server to lg 43UK6300 tv via Wireless LAN. Videos i plan to stream are 1080p and some of them are 4k, audio quality is AC-3, no subtitles, no other devices or remote stream, only me. Server will be dedicated file server and media server. What processor do i need to stream videos from pc to tv without any buffer or problems. OS i plan to use is windows 10 or 7.
I was thinking about AMD A6 9500 or even J1900. Will it be enough?
I need the cheapest solution as possible.
Region i am in is Europe.
If you are only using this 1 TV, there isn’t really a need for a server. Just load everything onto an external hard drive, connect it to the TV and use the TV’s built in DLNA player.
Well, i am almost out of space in mine 2tb hdd, so it would be impractical to have multiple external drives and to plug them in or out. Also, it would be too much effort to download media and then transfer it to external drive.
I already have two powerful workstations, and during stream mine pc processors just idle at 1-5% of cpu usage. I don’t get it why it happens? No transcoding in lan?
I thought this was for a new setup. If you need help for an existing setup, please start a new thread with specifics on the problem.
You wanted the cheapest solution. Alternatively, you can use an Nvidia Shield. This can act as both a server and client. You can connect multiple external hard drives to it, you can also transfer files to it from other computers on your network.
It isn’t cost effective to run ryzen 1600, gtx 1060 all the time to stream movies. Why waste resources when i can buy dedicated pc case that can hold lots of HDD and run on some used hardware that have mobo with integrated cpu, and all i need is stick of ram. That could cost me like 50$.
Mine only problem now is that i don’t really get how streaming/transcoding work?
Am uneducated on this topic. It seams that hardware i use on pc doesn’t matter, it looks like all transcoding is done in mine tv cpu.
Depends on what you are streaming, but for your case of just streaming to 1 TV, yeah, this could be overkill.
It really does matter. See below for more info.
Wrong, no transcoding occurs on the TV.
This applies to Plex. Your server, PMS, asks the client what codecs and file formats does it support. If the file you want to play fits the answer, it send the file as is. The client then decodes the file and plays it. If the file doesn’t fit, then PMS will convert the file on-the-fly to match what the client can support, this is transcoding, and sends over this converted video stream. It goes through this every time for every file. Transcoding can take a lot of CPU power. If you have a Plex Pass and a newer CPU with the Quick Sync or a compatible graphics card, the transcoding can be done with Quick Sync or the card instead, this is hardware accelerated transcoding. If you play a certain file often, it would be better to convert that file yourself to a compatible format so PMS does not need to transcode it. With only 1 client, it should be easy to convert all your files to a format that is compatible.
Ok, tnx for help so far. I appreciate it.
Does it mean that if i have video file in file format that mine lg tv support, no transcoding will occur? Only if format is incompatible, transcoding kick in?
Exactly. But remember that format is not just file type. It is file type and the codecs inside, and how those codecs are encoded in the first place. I would test and find a file that does need transcoding then convert it and remember what settings you used. If that converted file plays without transcoding, use that same setting for every other file when ever you need to encode a file.
Tnx god i bought lg tv, so much formats and codecs supported, and almost all of mine media are mp4 and mkv using x264 and h264. Will pay attention more.
Thank you once more.
