economical yes, example those intel celeron nas models especially.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... tmMPc/edit
but video transcoding quality wise nvidia nvenc is better.
https://youtu.be/cTvIj40kspc?t=445
https://youtu.be/ccoOGfX9qxg?t=968
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/ ... uick_sync/
something like arm though can't quite do live transcoding. although on reddit, other users proved u can stream content to a nvidia shield that will handle playback just fine even if you use an arm qnap nas.
but something like intel celeron models will at least give you some options. but you need a plex pass don't you ? to utilize the quicksync.
in the past when i was doing live transcoding in plex on intel celeron, it didn't quite handle some of my high bit rate h265 1080p content well. but i unfortunately did not have a plex pass to try quicksync if that would solve it (it probly would have). So replacing with a ryzen ts-877 u can do software transcoding and the cpu is powerful to handle my 1080p high bit rate just didn't.
didn't test 4k because it eats up too much storage. i use netflix streaming for 4k >_>: (since it's not my storage that has to store that)
in regards to the lock streams, doesn't amd graphics cards not have this limitation? but we never hear anything about using an amd graphics card in the qnap for plex transcoding
did amd give up or something?
