what is the best nas for home 4k streaming at the moment

Something not many people seem to be aware of is that when you serve up source to a target and not want any transcoding, it has to be compatible BOTH from a video and audio codec perspective. As soon as you bring transcoding into the picture, this is where things go haywire. Simply put, as long as your target devices can natively handle both the audio and video codecs of the source file, then you should be good. When you bring 4K into the mix, this opens up a whole world of hurt. Hey jxsilicon9, your desire to stream video to multiple devices is definitely achievable if you only want to do 1080p. When you first set it up and it ask what databases to pull the movie/TV info from SELECT EVERY SITE FOR ALL CATAGORIES! I had a lot of stuff the default one could find (IMDB) that others did so I had just started over on my database and it found EVERYTHING which was nice. The only thing about Plex is I will say this. Then found plex a year later and moved to that and have never looked back! I was going though downloading album art ect and what not and it was such a pain. Once i found out Chrome played it, i converted everything over, made a simple to use HTML site to browse my movies, setup a HTTP server, and then password protected everything I was using that. Also with 4K you will have your TV to be hardwired as well or have it be the only device on say that WiFi (if you have like a Tri Band router (2G + 2 5G networks) have one be just for the TV) this way you won't run into any bandwidth issues.īut either way it may take a while (Its been like 4 years for me) of converting ALL my stuff to MP4/AAC.

You might as well plug a high end PC straight into the TV and just use that VS the smart TV/Plex/Firestick/Roku/Boxee/etc. If you go from anything that is more than Stereo then you have issues hearing say a 5.1 channel as it only plays the front two and doesn't automatically convert to stereo on the TV Side so I have it set to stereo only which actually saves space in some cases, but then I don't have a sound system so it doesn't mother me that i lose surround sound.īut yea anything that is going to be 4K is going to be a pain. Select MP4 from the profile (I usually let everything be same and source in the settings except for Audio. My videos convert twice as fast now if not faster! (most of the time)). There is also a hack out there to use a 600+ Series NVidia to enable GPU acceleration (Its some DLL patch. Wonder Share Video Converter is what I use.

What is the best nas for home 4k streaming at the moment