Hardware-Accelerated Streaming on Linux requires:
- 64-bit Ubuntu (16.04 or later) or 64-bit Fedora (26 or later) distributions. (Other distributions may be capable, but are not officially supported.)
Sep 16, 2020 12:06:44.372 [0x810226d00] DEBUG - Codecs: hardware transcoding: opening hw device failed - probably not supported by this system, error: Generic error in an external library
There appears to be some issue and your system isn’t supported. I don’t know FreeNAS so I can’t provide specifics.
You can do that yourself. No need to have others. Just use any client you have and set the video quality lower than the source. That will force a transcode.
Your “This is a TEST for Jon” file has a source of ~80 Mbps. The speed guidelines are for a file 10in/10out. One test shows 80in/10 out and a speed of about 1 to 1.5. So your server is just barely able to keep up. In another test the output became 20 Mbps and the speed dropped below 1. Your CPU is not going to handle transcoding these files well. The bitrates of your test file is just too high.
I would suggest looking into getting the hardware transcoder working. Running on FreeNAS is outside my knowledge but I’d suggest searching the forums. I know this question has come up and others have gotten it to work. Here’s one regarding an issue due to permissions. HW Transcode not working 1.19.1
