If your ReadyNAS storage system is not connected to the internet, you can still install apps manually, but must first download them from the ReadyNAS Apps page to an internet-connected computer, then upload the app to the ReadyNAS system. Many apps can be installed directly from the local admin page of ReadyNAS storage systems connected to the internet. For instructions on Plex's basic setup, visit Plex's basic setup wizard. To see what devices support transcoding, visit Plex's NAS Compatibility Guide.
I pause it when I want - switch to watching other TV sources and later resume.You can install the Plex Media Server on your ReadyNAS storage system to organize, manage, and stream media to local and remote devices.įor detailed breakdown on how Plex transcodes, visit Plex's Transcoding Media article. I can have a slideshow for a filtered selection that would run over a number of days with my selected music tracks. Also I found that RARflix and the Roku manage to cope with server outages and just resume later - it does not grumble - just stops and later carries on when the server is back. Yes would be a long slideshow but the beauty of RARflix and the Roku is that you can pause it independently of what you do on the TV and resume later. Memory fragmentation - not sure what they can do about it I know memory leaks would just have their impact delayed with larger memory pool on 64-bit and so they ought to be eliminated first. This is an early non-PlexPASS forum post on the memory crashes with response If there are memory leaks and fragmentation issues, going to 64-bit would just delay the inevitable.Ģ5000 images for a slide show. Thank SA, but I'm not a PlexPass so I can't view that thread. Whilst I suspect memory leaks, the Plex Dev Team have not been able to prove that and think it is just fragmentation. I hope that with 64-bit app and 8Gb/16Gb RAM for the Plex Media Server.exe process there would be less of an impact. The xml returned for the filtered objects is big.Ī lot of development effort went in by ljunkie into RARflix for the Roku to split the big filtered requests into smaller chunks of 3000 at a time and then re-build the master list for the slideshow but even with this, after a while the Plex Media Server ends up with memory fragmentation (on windows) and memory failures start. Just get a client to do repeated requests for a library section with thousands of photos and soon there will be memory fragmentation and memory failures.Ī photo library of 80000 images with filter selection of say 25000 images running as slideshow would cause problems after a while - especially if abandoning the slideshow and re-starting or changing filters and doing a new request. Considering it processing videos in small pieces, does it even use up that much memory to hit 2 GB? I've never noticed my memory usage going up very high. The math involved in transcoding audio and video does not take advantage of that so there would be little to no gains in speed having the video card do the work. Basically ti comes down to the processor in the video cards are optimized to do certain types of math faster than a regular CPU. Now for using the video card to process video, this has also been brought up and there are several posts about it. There are some exceptions where the processing can be done faster with the 64-bit system, but these are limited to rare, complex computations. So you save the time from Step 3, but that step doesn't take up much CPU time, where as the processing part does, so overall you only get a slight bump in speed. Here is a rough example.ģ2-bit system: Step 1, load 32-bit of data Step 2 - process it Step 3 - load next 32-bit of data Step 4 - process itĦ4-bit system: Step 1, load 64-bit of data Step 2 - process it (this takes the same amount of time as step 2 and 4 from above) A 64-bit program will provide some speed improvement in that it can read and write 64-bits of data at a time, but the work it does to that data still take the same amount of time. Having a 64-bit system does not mean it can handle 2 32-bit packets simultaneously, it means it can handle packets up to 64-bit in size. If the Plex server using the VGA card will help it move faster code. So why do not we apply it to the Plex transcoding technology.
I found the software to convert them to handle apply of VGA technology to accelerate the process of it.