You don't need to transcode them if you have a media player capable of doing it itself. My old WDTV SMP can play video off of the files on the NAS, and my Amazon Fire TV Box has the app Kodi that plays all the files I throw at it. Transcoding on the NAS is CPU intensive espcially when you get to higher resolutions, not saying it won't work but if you have something that will run Kodi I think it might be a better solution.
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On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 12:33:02 AM UTC-4, Rich G wrote:You don't need to transcode them if you have a media player capable of doing it itself. My old WDTV SMP can play video off of the files on the NAS, and my Amazon Fire TV Box has the app Kodi that plays all the files I throw at it. Transcoding on the NAS is CPU intensive espcially when you get to higher resolutions, not saying it won't work but if you have something that will run Kodi I think it might be a better solution.
I am aware of all of that. I have one of the stonger CPU/Memory boxes