I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

tl;dr is: scrounge up some hardware, preferably on a recent-ish Intel platform with an igpu (i think 8th gen+ is the sweet shot), and then get a slew of storage. Pick a base operating system (I like ...

Are you having troubles streaming movies and TV shows remotely with Plex? There are a few things to check to make sure your media server is set up correctly. From verifying that you have hardware ...

You've got your Plex server set up and your content loaded into your Plex library, but when you play back certain videos, you get constant buffering, or poor image quality, or both. That's a common ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...