Are the following NAS options okay for live transcoding?
CCMan1701A @ CCMan1701A @startrek.website Posts 13Comments 540Joined 2 yr. ago
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I'm hosting on a Synology, but not transcoding.
It's likely more affordable to host a second jellyfin server on a desktop that is used for transcoding vs getting a NAS with the hardware.
As also mentioned you may not need to transcode unless you want to down mix to reduce bandwidth when not home. For those cases I would recommend you use handbrake and have multiple versions of the content at different resolutions/codecs as needed. Yeah it's work.
The majority of issue I have when running locally is audio codec compatibility. So I use ffmpeg to reencode and remux my mkvs with the new audio stream. (Typically eAC3)