PLEX

[guanabara]

you can say that our ns2 it's almost a Synology DS212j (except cpu speed, our has 800Mhz) and according to plex supported nas list (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201373803) you can see that Plex it's instalable but no transcoding it's supported since "CPU Below Minimum Recomended Spec, Transcoding Not supported"

When using subtitles (in example) Plex needs to transcode de video, before stream, so i don't think NS2 will have the power to use plex properly, specially using HD files.

[fantomel]

we'll see. keep in mind that synology firmware it's much eater in resources then fvdw-sl firmware. Let's hope that it will have at least the power to do subs and to send movies as they are. i will be pleased even with this since all my devices that use plex can decode anything.

[macbook13]

I succeeded to run plex media server on a nwsp2 :-D

It seems to use large ressource

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 7713 plex      35  15  176m  20m  768 S  0.6  8.5   2:00.12 python
 7702 plex      20   0  192m 5048 1964 S  0.0  2.0   0:09.72 Plex Media Serv
 7759 plex      20   0  160m 3444 1164 S  0.0  1.4   0:10.67 Plex DLNA Serve
 7792 plex      20   0  129m  16m  768 S  0.0  6.9   0:33.06 python


So this feature will be only available on NAS with at least 64MB RAM (or 128MB :mrgreen: )

I confirm that this feature should be install via an add-on.

Now, need to make a clean install process

think it will be available end June.

Any news regarding plex? I have seen on their site that server has been updated a few times this year.

[Jocko]

Hi macbook13,

Indeed, I don't have made the Plex addons but nobody asked me to do it since last June !

I go to find some times to do it. So next news in few weeks

[Jocko]

Some progress...
I will release the plex addons next week.

[fantomel]

Thanks a lot. Very glad to hear about this.

[Jocko]

The Plex patch is now available.

I confirm that no transcoding is available.

[fantomel]

Thanks a lot Jocko, i have installed it and i will test it today since i have a lot of media and also a lot of devices to test it.
I will provide feedback in the next days.

P.S. waiting forward for your raid firmware for 2bignetwork2 - the spare that stays unused for such a long time :)

[fantomel]

Ok, sorry for late reply, i have installed plex in my old but gold ns2. This one serves only as media storage for me since it has a 3tb drive. i have on this one only tv series and a few movies.
All went well, plex installed without problems, so far so good, next step-add media, so i have tried to add only 15 finished tv series that are not so big(many seasons many eps) and at this point....... error. Even after 5 hours it was still on discovery, blocked a few times and had to restart service at hand, and after this..... seeing that it's blocking and it has a lot of lag on accessing it i said stop.
Let's try with only a few movies, 10 of them at 720p, so i have stoped, cleaned the install and start from 0.
Again, install-all ok, entered in plex, added the 10 movies but hard on scan,too slow, after 2 blocking of plex service all was ok but to play one of them on an lg tv without transcoding was a hard job for it. has a few lags and so... all i can tell it's that it's working, but too hard for my old ns2.
Thanks Jocko for this add-on but i will remain to use it on home made synology since like this i will block my ns2.

When a firmware with raid will be available for my 2bignetwork2 i will test on that one firmware and plex also since it has more power to see what it's happening.

[Jocko]

Hi fantomel,

I am not surprised with your feedbacks with a nwsp2

Plex uses a lot of memory for each resource and please note also that when you add some plugins, about 15-20 MB is used in addition for each plugin! So with a nwsp2, the fs must swap the system memory.

I tested Plex feature with my 5big2 and it never hangs even if I added 3 TV channel. It succeed to scan a big media folders (>200GB) and I can see several movies (1080p and filesize >GTB).