Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

Buffering on Plex isn’t always about bad internet—it’s often about settings, transcoding, and hardware use. By fine-tuning quality limits, enabling direct play, and optimizing network access, you can ...

I almost wasted hundreds on new NAS drives until this automated tool magically freed up 7TB of storage ...

I'm working on transcoding our physical DVD library to something more server-based, partly so we can pull the DVDs off the shelf, partly because with a toddler, Plex seems likely to lead to less chaos ...