Hello good day, a question, which subscription is better to buy Plex Pass, the indefinite payment oh $5 monthly, because the app has 2 payment methods help me, I created my own nas truenas oh freenas, with a core 2 cpu duo
That’s totally up to you…
There’s users who want to check the Plex Pass features out and only buy a monthly / yearly membership. There’s users who want “the best bang per buck” who already know what they’ll get and go straight for the lifetime membership. There’s other users who want to keep supporting the development and stay on a yearly/monthly plan (which will cost them more than the lifetime membership at some point).
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And to have a remote connection I must buy the plex pass, right?
No Plex Pass required to setup remote access.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288566-what-is-plex-pass/
The remote connection will work without a Plex Pass. However, if you cannot set up direct remote access via port forwarding, and must use Plex’s relay service, I think that the free relay is 1 Mbps and with Plex Pass it is 2 Mbps.
Plex Pass does allow hardware-accelerated transcoding, which is almost required if the client cannot play the file directly and needs a bitrate reduction.
(Someone will be along soon to challenge me for saying it is “almost required” because their Cray XMP can transcode eleventy streams at once with CPU power alone.)
For most new users, there is no reason not try try the free tier first.
Been about 9 years ago, so I can’t remember what exactly I did. I decided to get the 5 bucks a month pass to try it out for a month. Figured if I didn’t like it or the features available via plexpass were not worth it to me, I’d just cancel and just be out the 5 bucks. Don’t remember if there was a way to convert to lifetime or if I had to cancel and re-up for the lifetime, but I do remember deciding to do it within the first two days.
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Ah the good ol’ days… Ditto 
No, it’s not REQUIRED, per say, but-
Oh, you beat me to it.
Hehe, actually, I just wanted to mention that as long as you aren’t doing bigger than 1080p, and it’s for at most 1 or 2 transcodes at once, I’d wager anything above a Raspberry Pi could handle CPU transcode just fine.
To OP: For me, the Plex Pass is a requirement to use the DVR feature, which was required if I was to drop my cable package and just do OTA recordings in Plex. The other features of Plex Pass (free mobile app access, intro skip, outro skip, Plex Amp, hardware transcoding (before I offloaded Plex from my NAS)) was just icing on the cake.
I always encourage having the option for hardware acceleration if it is in budget. Otherwise the user is very excited at first for saving three dollars by getting an “F” CPU, and then may be very confused later when the system runs out of gas.
While it’s cool you can run Plex on a toaster, I don’t think bare minimum builds are a great idea for most users. You have to be able to say with authority things like “I will only ever run one or two 1080p transcodes on this abacus,” which you have clearly planned out… But I think a lot of new users don’t know what they are getting into and may want to exceed those parameters as they learn more about Plex.
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