Plex on ReadyNAS Pro

I have a basic clarification question here. I see we're talking about PLEX and then I saw a reference to ReadyDLNA. Totally not the same thing. PLEX has it's own DLNA server. Using one will get you transcoding, the other won't. If you're going to be keeping one quality source and want to be able to move around and not worry about it, I'd suggest disabling ReadyDLNA and use PLEX'es instead. Further, I'd strongly recommend using native PLEX clients to DLNA. I've noticed situations were with our Samsung Smart TV that the DLNA client is pretty dumb, and the PLEX client has no difficulty playing various media. YMMV.

It is worth noting that some PLEX server and client version combinations will vary regarding their ability to sense the details of the client and connection to adjust the transcoding quality. If it gets into DirectPlay mode or it thinks you have more bandwidth than you really do, then you will see stuttering. With Roku, for example, I've noticed that I have to /manually/ select lower bandwidth values (in the Roku) to correctly get PLEX to notice that the connection available may not be what it would expect. Once done, playback performs quite well.