Is there a QNAP NAS that’s capable of transcoding h.265 material (atleast 1080p) through Plex? I’ve tried Google but it won’t help me much…
I haven’t experience with many but for what it’s worth I can tell your one that does and one that sort-of-does.
At work I set up a Qnap 871T (~£2000+HDs) which has a pretty good quadcore Intel i5.
At home I have a Qnap 863 (~£850+HDs) which has a vague and ambiguous quadcore AMD thing.
Both have integrated graphics BUT plex cannot use them. (One day hopefully it will!)
So the CPU is a major factor in transcodes (let’s assume the network is not a bottleneck).
The 871T DOES smoothly play back H265 1080P24 source from Plex Server to H264 1080P24 Chromecast via Android Plex Client. However there is a slight lag initially and if you seek/stop etc…
The 863 CAN play back smoothly a.a. but it depends more on the source. H264 (eg MKV) to H264 that Chromecast can read transcodes are fine. H265 seems to tax the AMD cpu a lot, as in it maxes it out!
720P seem okay but highly compressed 1080P pushes it too much. Ironically I bought the 863 as it promised hardware transcoding. Alas I didn’t know how plex worked.
Not the most useful or complete info but I hope it helps give you some ideas anyway.
For what it’s worth. I’m slowly beginning to regret getting a NAS and not just building my own machine and running freenas or equivalent on it.
Good luck!
R
building your own machine is fine for speed and function, I did that initially and it worked great, but it meant that my computer was running 24hrs a day, and it has a 650watt power supply compared the the 60 watt power supply on my qnap 251 that actually works just fine 98% of the time. So I swapped to the qnap to save on my electric bill. Honestly the computer itself uses almost as much as all my lights in the howse combined now that I am running leds. So…
Old post but still relevant. My QNAP NAS is an i7 prosessor with 16GB RAM and has no problem transcoding h265 even with 4k source and 4k destination. But, for as much content as I can, my content is h265 and my Roku plays h265 native so there’s no reason to transcode. The only time I need to transcode is when playing something remote or if a family member is remoted into the NAS to play something.
Basically, you need a very fast box to transcode hevc at 4k. But, try to avoid it anyway by playing it native without transcoding. Transcoding lowers quantity and requires CPU resources, so don’t unless you must.
Hope this helps!
which roku do you have? I want to buy one buy am not sure if it do directplay with Hevc. Sorry for my bad english
