all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 If anyone is using a nas, I'm just curious on how picture quality is if your doing 2 or more streams. Most nas units I was looking at on amazon seam to have a celeron processor. Thanks Dominick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 If anyone is using a nas, I'm just curious on how picture quality is if your doing 2 or more streams. Most nas units I was looking at on amazon seam to have a celeron processor. Thanks Dominick NAS is a general term for Network Attached Storage, ie, it can be anything w/ drives in it on a network. I'm assuming you mean a pre-built variety like a Synology? If so, benchmark the CPU like I recommended on your previous post about this. Generally speaking, your experience will suck if you have to do any kind of transcoding. However, direct streaming will be fine. You can, of course, roll your own NAS and put any kind of CPU in it that you wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 Yes, i was looking at a qnap and thats what i was curious about.....transcoding. I'm using 2 firesticks, apple tv, a roku tv and i have my htpc and i know I'm transcoding to those devices. My media is mostly mkv, but I have a few shows in other formats. So far i think I'm going to wind up building something with just an I3 for transcoding purposes. Worse case i'll just through win 10 on it for an os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37059 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Synology and QNAP are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 Luke, how are they with transcoding for emby. I'm have 2 firesticks, apple tv, roku tv and one htpc. i want to play it safe and make sure I have enough of processing power to cover that. I'm not running it on all devices at the dsame time, but i just want to play it safe. After all the researching, I'm looking at qnap or making a unit with windiows 10 pro like many others here have done. I was liking omv, but I read some info about it on the installation page from emby with some users saying there is no support for it. The other versions of linux that emby supports is to complicated for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37059 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Omv no support for what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 I was reading on the emby/omv installation page that some users were having issues and they mentioned that there is no more updates for omv. Someone mentioned something about end of life support for what ever version of linux that is used towards omv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37059 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 That's just omv 2 right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 I'm not sure luke. I dont know anything about that. I only know windows but once i read the article it spooked me into not wanting to try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Unless you spend serious money on a NAS - Qnap, Synology with a i3 or better you are not going to get transcoding from any NAS - i have three and even my fastest with a celeron processor struggles to even do a single stream of 720 to 1080 with four cores - its not that transcoding does not work its just painfully slow or not fast enough to be watchable. Everybody forgets that a NAS primary focus is to be a file server and a low power device at that - then expecting it to do transcoding which i5 and i7 struggle to do unless they are fairly recent - is fantasy If you want a NAS - build your own - look at Xpenology (synology clone) - i have done that in the past and it works very well as you can give it a good processor for speed and transcoding - emby works on xpenology as well - so thats the way to go if you want to combine the two. Or buy a cheaper NAS and use it as your main data store and have emby on your pc or an intel nuc or compute stick - providing files to the emby server is very good off a nas - my QNAP 853A feeds my Intel Skull Canyon NUC without any problem as it's being used as it was designed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skurvy_pirate 2 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I have a QNAP TS-563, and as others have mentioned, unless you want to spend a lot on a NAS you aren't going to get much transcoding power out of it I don't think. With mine, I can do 1 external stream (transcoding) fine, maybe 2 depending on source/destination quality. But to be safe I would say 1. I can have tons of other local ethernet streams going though of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 I decided I'm gonna build a unit and use win 10 pro so I can make it headless. Hoping I can get a way with an i3...if not I'll use an i5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 I decided I'm gonna build a unit and use win 10 pro so I can make it headless. Hoping I can get a way with an i3...if not I'll use an i5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) if you can afford it an i5 or i7 would be a much safer bet as threads count in transcoding yes you need a pro licence of windows to get remote desktop - but you can use say vnc or teamviewer or some other third party app but as you can get win 10 pro for less than £10 on ebay its probably easier if you are familiar with windows Edited January 6, 2017 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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