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Aspirant

Oct 22, 2015

ReadyNAS and video transcoding. Cannot play videos with Plex

Got my 102 today. No problems with the 102 in general. I Have a ReadyNAS Duo V1. The 102 is about the same except for apps and Readycloud. I can connect with readycloud, no problem. I...

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StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Oct 22, 2015

mp4 (H.264 video and aac audio) works w/o transcoding.

shadowjack

Aspirant

Oct 23, 2015

I have tried some mp4 files and they did not work. BUT. Maybe I will try to create some again. Would bitrate make a difference? I dont care about super high quality when I stream. I was thinking 320 kbps as tolerable. Need to experiment I guess. I need to get a new dvd ripper too, I guess. Streaming video is nice when you are stuck in a hospital with a laptop or tablet (with wifi) and you have the room's 12" tv two miles from your bed, LOL.

I am disappointed about the processing power of the 102. It has not improved much over my ReadyNAS Duo (I upgraded the memory for that I think). But, for the price, the 102 is a SOLID unit. I have the Duo in RAID (2x1TB). The 102 is a single 2TB now.

I copied my music collection of about 300GB of music to the 102. Some are high resolution (24bit 96khz) FLAC files. These high resolution files seem to stream OK, to my surprise. I discovered another streaming app, Subsonic, and will try that out too when the library creation is completed on the 102 with Plex..... I expect this creation to take many days. I think it is because Plex goes to the internet for each track, searching for info on it. I wish I could stop it from doing this.

aVe2000
Aspirant
Oct 23, 2015
hi ShadowJack,

i assume you use an android phone with the plex app to stream your videos?
The message you see 'your nas is not good enough for transcoding' i only see when using the plex.tv site. Do you agree? So using the plex app on your phone should work well. And it does look like that, if i understood correctly.
One bottleneck could be your internet connection. The downstream usually differs from upstream. So, if you dont login within your local network you wont get the speed you like to see. That could be a problem, too. After all, you maybe could try to use a vpn access to your local network avoiding the plex.tv way.

Regards.