I’m about to setup a new Nvidia Shield as a small server but first wanted to ask for some advice.
There are lots of posts online regarding past problems on the Shield with Plex Server updates and Android issues with external storage.
What is the current state of play please?
Does the latest server release work properly on the Shield? Are there any updates I should avoid?
Thanks
I wouldn’t suggest using the Shield as a PMS. If you have no choice then go for it, but for me it was more trouble than it was worth. I bought an N100 mini PC instead and it’s been more or less hassle free and it was a smart move.
I’ve used a nVidia Shield 2019 Pro as my main plex server for 4 years before going to a full unraid server this winter.
It works well if you are just servering up one stream on your local network. I tried to get it to do two 4k streams at once and it strugged which I kind of expected. Also don’t expect it to do any transcoding or all you will see is buffering. Other than that direct played everything I threw at it.
There’s a bug right now when adding new files, you have to go into the Web UI and manually scan the library for plex to pick it up. I don’t know how prevelant it is though cause the thread on this forum about it is pretty small. So you might not experience it.
If you want to use it as a server for Live TV & DVR…don’t. It’s a buggy mess and the basics like HW transcode don’t work…havn’t worked for years. If you want to use it as a server for your own movie/TV show files…it’s ok but less stable vs. another HW solution.
It’s worth noting that they finally fixed a HW transcoding recently (nvidia shield Live TV)! It’s been a LONG time. Looks like they’ve made a lot up updates to HW transcoding recently on the release notes…probably related to HEVC support.
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