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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by diminoten on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:54PM (#21488677)
You could run it off of a laptop sitting in your closet and be able to support 3-5 simultaneous users no problem. It'd be a benefit if you had 1GBPS symmetric fiber, though.

But yeah, RPi is rough because you do need legit CPU to transcode on the fly, which is what Plex does, and the more users the more transcoding power you need.

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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by LeoNatan25 on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:06PM (#21488752)
It's possible to cache Plex encodes, I think.

But Plex is very limited in its encoding capabilities. H265 with HDR is just not supported properly. On top of that, there is just no way to encode H265 in real time (a high quality reencode of a Bluray can take days on top of the line Xeon CPUs). One would be better off downloading a few versions of the same movie; plex supports choosing which version to play.

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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by diminoten on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:26AM (#21492405)
Why should I care about any of that? I just want to watch 30 Rock, not run an A/V store.
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