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Transcoding on the fly takes juice

That much?

Yes, it's expensive to re-encode video to a different resolution or quality.

I realize it's expensive, but does it require 12 cores/24 threads running at almost 3.5ghz. I just find that hard to believe, sorry.

Well when you've got your plex account shared with 10 or so people it adds up.

ohh, i see