paul1965 2 Posted January 19, 2019 Posted January 19, 2019 I'm thinking about moving Emby to a WD PR4100. Is there anywhere I can find screenshots of what the GUI for the home page looks like when I access it from a browser (FF)? I'm assuming it will be different than what I see now in Windows, or is that incorrect?
Luke 40114 Posted January 19, 2019 Posted January 19, 2019 It will be the same as the other platforms.
paul1965 2 Posted January 22, 2019 Author Posted January 22, 2019 I just ordered it this morning from the same seller I bought my EX4100 from. I decided to upgrade and got a refurb 16tb for $615, so hopefully it's worth the investment!
JDizzy 21 Posted January 30, 2019 Posted January 30, 2019 I'd be interested to know how you get on with the wd pr4100 Was looking at one of these myself as currently got a qnap 328 so keep me updated please Paul I have been running the PR4100 for over a month and have no problems to report. I was having a problem (I think) with manual updates overwritting my databases, but now, just as a precaution, prior to updating, I back up, and also uninstall prior version of Emby Server before installing new version... haven't had a problem since and don't need to restore backup databases. Pretty straight forward, unistall old version then manually install new version and pick up where you left off. (I only backup databases occasionally now as it doesn't seem a problem). It seems to transcode efficiently and is pretty zippy. Interface is same as Windows.
paul1965 2 Posted January 30, 2019 Author Posted January 30, 2019 I have been running the PR4100 for over a month and have no problems to report. I was having a problem (I think) with manual updates overwritting my databases, but now, just as a precaution, prior to updating, I back up, and also uninstall prior version of Emby Server before installing new version... haven't had a problem since and don't need to restore backup databases. Pretty straight forward, unistall old version then manually install new version and pick up where you left off. (I only backup databases occasionally now as it doesn't seem a problem). It seems to transcode efficiently and is pretty zippy. Interface is same as Windows. Thanks for the info. My plan is to swap my drives from my EX4100 into the PR4100. I did some research and found that I should be able to do it and not lose any data. The PR will do all my TV streaming, and the EX will do other media and music.
Guest JaysEmby Posted February 2, 2019 Posted February 2, 2019 That's great news as tempted get one of these now As I believe the pr4100 does plex transcoding quite well... so how does it perform with emby does it all work well?
Luke 40114 Posted February 2, 2019 Posted February 2, 2019 We support hardware accelerated transcoding on the pr4100.
paul1965 2 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) The NAS arrived today, just getting things set up and see they sent me a 24TB unit instead of the 16TB! I'll copy everything over instead of doing a drive swap. Edited February 6, 2019 by paul1965
tafelpoowt 7 Posted February 12, 2019 Posted February 12, 2019 Note: the PRx100 braswell processor supports hardware transcoding for x264 and 8bit x265, but not 10bit x265/hevc.
paul1965 2 Posted February 12, 2019 Author Posted February 12, 2019 I'm not sure why I thought the GUI would be different. So far so good on getting things set up, though I do appear to be stuck scanning the library at 86.3% (or something like that). I'll see what the status is when I get home later today and if needed search the forums for an answer, if it's still stuck.
j4jacks 0 Posted April 20, 2019 Posted April 20, 2019 The NAS arrived today, just getting things set up and see they sent me a 24TB unit instead of the 16TB! I'll copy everything over instead of doing a drive swap. Lucky you! I'm been running on a 16TB PR4100 for about 8 months now with zero issues. Transcoding is smooth even with 3-4 streams going at once. I couldn't do this with my old Synology box!
OurfamilySpot 5 Posted September 14, 2021 Posted September 14, 2021 On 2/1/2019 at 11:26 PM, Luke said: We support hardware accelerated transcoding on the pr4100. Silly question. Do we just need to set this to yes to leverage the hardware accelerated transcoding? Or is there specific setting we need to select?
Luke 40114 Posted September 14, 2021 Posted September 14, 2021 59 minutes ago, OurfamilySpot said: Silly question. Do we just need to set this to yes to leverage the hardware accelerated transcoding? Or is there specific setting we need to select? Hi, it's already Yes by default, so there's nothing else you need to do on Western Digital. 1
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