Homemovielover
Novice Member
Hi All,
Looking to the future I want to rip my collection of blurays and dvd's (including many TV boxsets) to a central server that's accessible to my (future build) cinema room with 1080P projector, my 50" Panasonic Plasma in the lounge, at least one of the bedroom TV's and a couple of the kids ipads.
I'm trying to formulate a hardware solution that's man enough to do the above successfully. Ive just started reading up on the whole topic of options and im pretty sure Plex is for me. However there does appear to be an issue of transcoding or more so, the muscle required to achieve multiple 1080p streams.
The house is in a good way, connectivity wise. Ive got Cat 5e to all the TV's running.
I already bought 3 Intel NUC's with 1TB Samsung SSD's and 8gb ram but fear I may have moved too soon with these i.e. before I actually understood how Plex worked and where it did the transcoding and therefore needed it muscle. Result is, they are probably overkill for the client ends but as I have them I'll either use them or if really not suitable for any other reason, sell them on and buy a cheaper solution.
I'm figuring I'll need a decent i5, i7 or xeon based server for transcoding duties? From my initial reading it seems that something that can manage three HD streams should be sufficient for my needs (around 6000 passmarks) but I do like a little overhead.
Then, where do I store the movies? On a Synology NAS or build the above i5, i7 or xeon server into a rackmount chassis with hot swap drives/bays? What's best and how should it be configured so that the Server does the transcoding, the NAS is just for storage and the clients are there just to display whats sent... or is my understanding of the hardware components involved not right? Happy to be educated.
Looking to the future I want to rip my collection of blurays and dvd's (including many TV boxsets) to a central server that's accessible to my (future build) cinema room with 1080P projector, my 50" Panasonic Plasma in the lounge, at least one of the bedroom TV's and a couple of the kids ipads.
I'm trying to formulate a hardware solution that's man enough to do the above successfully. Ive just started reading up on the whole topic of options and im pretty sure Plex is for me. However there does appear to be an issue of transcoding or more so, the muscle required to achieve multiple 1080p streams.
The house is in a good way, connectivity wise. Ive got Cat 5e to all the TV's running.
I already bought 3 Intel NUC's with 1TB Samsung SSD's and 8gb ram but fear I may have moved too soon with these i.e. before I actually understood how Plex worked and where it did the transcoding and therefore needed it muscle. Result is, they are probably overkill for the client ends but as I have them I'll either use them or if really not suitable for any other reason, sell them on and buy a cheaper solution.
I'm figuring I'll need a decent i5, i7 or xeon based server for transcoding duties? From my initial reading it seems that something that can manage three HD streams should be sufficient for my needs (around 6000 passmarks) but I do like a little overhead.
Then, where do I store the movies? On a Synology NAS or build the above i5, i7 or xeon server into a rackmount chassis with hot swap drives/bays? What's best and how should it be configured so that the Server does the transcoding, the NAS is just for storage and the clients are there just to display whats sent... or is my understanding of the hardware components involved not right? Happy to be educated.