Plex Server on Synology DS218+ OR Desktop with i7-4790K 4.0 GHz CPU

[skwor01]

LOL I literally just made a post that shows what the J3455 can do with hardware transcoding and SRT. you can read it and see my screenshots here:

DS128+ -- Transcoding is taking 98% CPU suddently

It can burn at least 1 subtitle (srt) if you are using hardware encoding for the video. My TS-453Be (also a J3455) with Plex Pass has done 7 streams one doing subtitles, 4 video trans-coding and several more audio trans-coding, running at 85-ish percent. But yes subtitles puts a hurt on the CPU. Without the subtitles I have seen it run 12 streams and still only be at 70-ish percent with various (I think 6) video encodings. In my opinion the lifetime Plex Pass is worth it for HW transcoding if o…