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Re: My darn NAS...

From "NY" <me@privacy.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: My darn NAS...
Date 2021-01-11 15:39 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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"paul lee" <nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net> wrote in message 
news:497943163@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net...
> I had setup an Open Media Vault on a Raspberry Pi 3, which I know doesn't 
> have
> gigabit ethernet...
>
> I use cheap USB Hard Drives, 2 x 4TB Seagates...
>
> I run a PLEX server and, although I'm sure I don't have awesome 4k content
> [Probably not even all 1080p!], it seems to work just fine for streaming 
> to ONE
> television at a time.

Do you find that the RPi3 acting as a Plex server is powerful enough to 
transcode recordings from the format in which you recorded them (MPEG TS or 
H264 TS) into whatever esoteric format Plex clients require?

I found that even a RPi4 gets very hot and runs at very high CPU % if it has 
to do any transcoding. Using the Plex client on a Roku box, it seems that it 
will play SD recordings (MPEG TS) natively but has to transcode HD 
recordings (H264 TS). I suppose this is an improvement over Windows, where 
it seems to transcode everything.

Why did Plex devise a client-server architecture where the client cannot 
play the files in their native form, but must instead get the server to 
transcode them? Is there a format that recordings could be converted to 
(offline) which allows them to be played without transcoding? What a faff 
having to do that for every file of my several TB of recordings...

At least on RPi4, VLC will run fast enough to play either SD or HD TS files, 
either from a local disk or over Ethernet/SMB. All I need to do is to get 
the sound to work - either via the analogue output or via the HDMI lead to 
my TV. I may end up binning PLex server and playing to the TV over VLC on 
the Pi - at least VLC can play whatever file format is available. 

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My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-10 17:46 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 04:10 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:28 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-12 10:26 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 10:57 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:16 -0500
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 18:04 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-12 18:38 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:20 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 12:42 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 12:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 14:23 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 18:21 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 19:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:58 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 13:10 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:35 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-13 17:33 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:22 +1300
        Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 13:20 +1300
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 09:46 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:21 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:20 +1300
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 08:56 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 11:06 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 11:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-14 12:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:42 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:36 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6840.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 11:45 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:05 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 18:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:35 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-15 11:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6810.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 06:36 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:53 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:19 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 14:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:52 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:24 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:07 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 15:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-14 20:08 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-15 08:34 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:17 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-16 12:30 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-18 17:57 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-19 13:37 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-21 18:06 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 10:15 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 15:16 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 15:31 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 18:05 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:31 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:19 -0500
        Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:09 +0000
  Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-11 10:25 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:35 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:25 -0500
        Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-12 19:32 +0000
  Re: My darn NAS... "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2021-01-11 15:39 +0000

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