Lockerstor Gen2 AS6704T - Is AV1 supported?

[sweetmslily 5]

Hi folks. Looking into picking up one of these four bay NAS systems and moving my server over to it to free up the need for my desktop machine to be on all the time. Easy question I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to: my library is in H264 as well as AV1, which I started using a couple years ago. The host machine, a 2014 iMac presently, plays AV1 directly to most of our devices but has to software transcode it for the Xbox One/Series X. I'm wondering if these NAS machines can transcode AV1. They have a Jasper Lake Celeron N5105 processor, which doesn't appear to support hardware AV1 transcoding, but it might still have enough juice to transcode it in software? The iMac can transcode two AV1 streams before it falls on its face and it's from 2014, so I'd just like to know 1) if it's possible and 2) what kind of performance I should expect. Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

Hi, usually the asustor page mentions this. Have you checked that?

[sweetmslily 5]

30 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, usually the asustor page mentions this. Have you checked that?

I have, though I don't see a list of supported formats in the Amazon listing or on their site. Somewhere in my research I did happen upon a list that included H264/265 but no mention of AV1. I'm also not sure if that list was just pertaining to their built in software supporting the format, or if it's a system wide limitation.

That's why I figured I'd ask since Emby server supports AV1, but as this is my first venture into NAS hardware, I wasn't sure if there was some reason it wouldn't work in the Emby Server app on an x64 NAS, when it works on a desktop machine. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Well Emby supports what hardware detection returns it supports.  Since the hardware does not support AV1 and decoding would be done in software it is really hard to say how well the Jasper Lake Celeron N5105 processor unless there are individual out there that have tried.

This topic probably should be moved to Hardware section. @seanbuff

Edited March 18, 2025 by Happy2Play

[sweetmslily 5]

40 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Well Emby supports what hardware detection returns it supports.  Since the hardware does not support AV1 and decoding would be done in software it is really hard to say how well the Jasper Lake Celeron N5105 processor unless there are individual out there that have tried.

This topic probably should be move to Hardware section.

Thanks! Yeah it's hard to say without real world testing but it's a very expensive piece of kit to risk not being able to return it. 

You can go ahead with moving this if it works better in another category. 

[seanbuff 1313]

3 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

This topic probably should be moved to Hardware section. @seanbuff

Moved to General Hardware section

[TMCsw 246]

From fallowing links for this NAS leads to this page:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/212328/intel-celeron-processor-n5105-4m-cache-up-to-2-90-ghz/specifications.html

that shows...

= < 1% this will do AV1

UNLESS you can add a separate GPU? $$$...

[sweetmslily 5]

1 minute ago, TMCsw said:

From fallowing links for this NAS leads to this page:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/212328/intel-celeron-processor-n5105-4m-cache-up-to-2-90-ghz/specifications.html

that shows...

= < 1% this will do AV1

UNLESS you can add a separate GPU? $$$...

Perfect, thank you, there's my answer. At first I wasn't sure if Emby added something that made it compatible with AV1 transcoding, but in retrospect should have just gone to "what can the hardware do?", didn't think to check with Intel. Yeah I'm not about to run out and get a GPU for a NAS. I think what I'll do is continue to run the server on my old machine and just upgrade the machine, cause then I get brand new server hardware AND a system that can archive content faster. Thanks everyone for the help.