One 4K SDR transcode: 12,000 PassMark score.One 1080p transcode: 2,000 PassMark score.One 720p transcode: 1,500 PassMark score.As Plex’s support page notes, a single transcoded stream requires a CPU with the following minimum scores from benchmark program PassMark (PassMark scores measure CPU performance and higher scores are better): Transcoding will rarely be a problem when you’re accessing Plex at home.īut the biggest challenge with transcoding is the CPU horsepower it’ll require from your Plex server. For instance, Plex will have to transcode a video if you’re remotely playing a 4K video on a 720p smartphone. That's just me.In the most layman of layman’s terms, transcoding refers to when Plex has to convert a video to play on a new streaming device. However, 1M/sec is great for most phones for example and can be handled even through 3G (though make sure you have an unlimited or big data plan).įor music though, I prefer Subsonic. Even my TWC 30/5M connection really can only do so-so transcoding. If you want to stream HD out through your cheap ISP, it's not likely going to happen. You also need to check your ISP's upload speed. And the only big kid filter would be the parental setup of which I haven't messed with yet (will be soon and have been looking deeper into this, but that seems the only solution which isn't a great one but.). To stream it outside your network, that's where PLEX comes in. Other gotcha, if you want to do stuff within your network, XBMC is all you really need. Videos need to be in the acceptable formats of which there are many, but no. Still need to work on forced subtitles but other then that they play well. It was made from XBMC which alone still has a few issues but other things are fixed. PLEX is nice, I use it on my 36TB server, but there are a lot of limitations.
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