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Would you mind going into your Plex server setup a bit? I tried using a Pi before but could barely get it to trasncode anything, and playback was miserable. Now I'm using a Kimsufi server, but I'd prefer to have a locally running server (that isn't my main PC) as my Plex media server

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If you have total control of the media files and the clients, you can avoid transcoding altogether.

Everything on my server plays on all of my clients without transcoding. From what I understand, an “Atomic Pi” is inexpensive and can handle a few transcodes at once, if that’s a requirement of yours.

I'm using a NUC rather than a Pi for Plex, but I avoid transcoding on the server by just transcoding everything up front. Nearly every client these days can play H.264 natively.

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