Tomnook80
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Hi all,
I have a shiny new Synology 920+ arriving in the near future and having not had a dedicated NAS setup in a long while had a query for those in the know.
My current setup is LG OLED48CX and Shield TV Pro 2019, everything is wired via CAT6 through ports I put in when I networked my house. My plan was primarily to use the 920+ as a media server; a Plex server, and use my Shield as a client in order to stream 4K content, primarily remuxes. However, I'm aware that the new 20+ series don't support HEVC 10bit files (which quite a few of my 4K files are). I wanted to avoid transcoding as much as possible, so am I right in thinking I have these options:
1. Use Shield TV Pro as a Plex media server and point it to the Synology? If so would this cause playback issues as while the Shield supports a massive range of formats I'm assuming it won't be as efficient as the 920+ and I may get playback issues?
2. Convert the 10bit losslessly into 8bit format
3. Have I misunderstood completely, as even though the Synology doesn't support 10bit natively the Shield would take care of it without the need to transcode?
I'm aware there have been a few workarounds posted, but I wonder if these seem a bit hit and miss
Many thanks
I have a shiny new Synology 920+ arriving in the near future and having not had a dedicated NAS setup in a long while had a query for those in the know.
My current setup is LG OLED48CX and Shield TV Pro 2019, everything is wired via CAT6 through ports I put in when I networked my house. My plan was primarily to use the 920+ as a media server; a Plex server, and use my Shield as a client in order to stream 4K content, primarily remuxes. However, I'm aware that the new 20+ series don't support HEVC 10bit files (which quite a few of my 4K files are). I wanted to avoid transcoding as much as possible, so am I right in thinking I have these options:
1. Use Shield TV Pro as a Plex media server and point it to the Synology? If so would this cause playback issues as while the Shield supports a massive range of formats I'm assuming it won't be as efficient as the 920+ and I may get playback issues?
2. Convert the 10bit losslessly into 8bit format
3. Have I misunderstood completely, as even though the Synology doesn't support 10bit natively the Shield would take care of it without the need to transcode?
I'm aware there have been a few workarounds posted, but I wonder if these seem a bit hit and miss
Many thanks
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