QNAP Recommendation for Live TV Transcoding

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Hello Everyone. My old QNAP 453A met an untimely death do to a water leak. I am in the market for a new QNAP but one that can handle the LiveTV (with Plex Pass) hardware transcoding, as my current one can not. I use a HD Home Run Prime as my tuner and I access Plex on Apple TVs and other iOS devices. My hope is to use it for LiveTV, TV DRV, and normal DVD/Blueray RIPs.

I have seen some info on the Plex and QNAP sites but nothing definitive as to doing LiveTV hardware transcoding and how many streams it can handle at a time. And how many recordings it can handle at a time, unless it can do the 3 max from my HD Home Run.

So, is anyone already doing LiveTV transcoding and recording with a Plex Pass and a QNAP? I only really need 4 hard drive bays. Thanks for your input!

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I just got the NAS Compatibility List updated last month.

I think you’ll find it much more informative than the old. It includes hardware transcoding :slight_smile:

The TS-453B is likely a good choice for you if you were otherwise happy with the 453A

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Great, thanks. I must have missed the link for the spreadsheet. How would you compare the TS-453B to the TVS-471-i3? They both support hardware transcoding up to 1080p. Do you know how many streams of cable TV recording and live viewing they can handle from and HD HomeRun Prime?

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Take the processor info and start comparing them at cpubenchmark.net

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I went with the TVS-471-I3-4G. I have just started to record TV shows to it with Plex but it appears to be working so far.