PMS not running on SYNOLOGY NAS

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Nope… sorry, just pure knowledge by testing, and ended by putting plex on different machine, as my Synology does not have HW Acc anymore (have Ryzen becouse my Intel one burn out).

But if you are ok with Terminal and have a lot of ram on NAS, really good is to make ramdisk for transcoding.

BTW: On synology, I always run PLEX in docker instead of NAS directly, becouse Synology make pretty stupid decisions lately, so i love to have my Plex as separated as possible. Only issue is you must set it properly to get HW Transcode working (there are a lot of manuals on internet)

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When we first started using HW transcoding on Synology,
without having the tonemapping modules included,
We could use docker’s modules AND overlay the existing PlexMediaServer

This allowed you to setup PMS using the resident package but then switch to docker if you wanted

While I’ve not tested recently, there is nothing known to prevent it from running correctly.

Requirement is the Plexinc/pms-docker image.

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I am slightly lost…this docker solution will work even on my DS218j? I always play movies without transcoding because of really low CPU/RAM. The only obstacle is speed of internet or to be more specific - my LG is not able to process more than 100 MB/s from ethernet cable.

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@mario_bumbera_seznam_cz

Was offline for most of last two days. Had to deal with some personal stuff.

Checking in. Are things up and running OK?

I copied the wrong URL for Authorized Devices. Corrected.


@bckp

Thanks for the assistance.

FYI, OP is using a DS218j with an ARMv7 CPU. Synology does not support Docker on such systems.

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If you’ve a strong Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) 5 GHz signal at the TV you might give that a try. It will be faster than the 100 Mbps Ethernet port.

Also, note that LG specs have a limit of 40 Mbps for 1080p video and 60 Mbps for 4K HDR video. The limits are lower for older versions of webOS.

If your 4K HDR videos are bumping up against the limit, there could be playback problems when using the Plex webOS app.

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Oh, I did not noticed, he have j version of synology, that does not make sense to use docker as Synology does not provide it… Well, Synology lately does not provide a lot of stuff… :frowning: even killed codecs for NAS.

Have same LG TV, there are some limitations, but i hit them only when playing 4K Wither with enourmous bitrate… Otherwise, working OK.

You can always go for Apple TV/nVidia Shield and play movies on that with plex app, they are more then enought powerfull to play literally anythink

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Is it better via ethernet cable or you are using wifi? when I use plex I always prefer highest quality, but some bluray rips are sometimes buffering

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By my opinion, hard wire is always better… Yeah, have same problem with some of my collection, but Apple TV solves this…

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You have ethernet cable connected to Apple tv and HDMI between LG and apple TV? Is that it? Can the HDMI lower the quality?

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I have ethernet cable to TV and Apple TV, ale TV and AppleTV is connected via HDMI 2.1. If you have HDMI 1.4 it can be on limit on some movies (4K@30fps max), if you have HDMI2 or higher, you are safe :slight_smile: as HDMI 2 have 4K@60

Apple TV is capable of HDMI 2.1
nVidia Shield have HDMI 2.0b

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