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1. #How to put sonarr and plex on mac 1080p#
2. #How to put sonarr and plex on mac software#
3. #How to put sonarr and plex on mac tv#
4. #How to put sonarr and plex on mac download#

If you are a PLEX Pass subscriber (paid PLEX account) you have access to hardware transcoding features. This is one of the main reasons to choose your server platform wisely. To make this work in real-time, and to give you a smooth experience, the PLEX server needs to have enough power (CPU power) to do this without any problems. In this case, your PLEX server will initiate a "transcode" process to make this happen and then push that desired file format to your PLEX client.

#How to put sonarr and plex on mac 1080p#

Why is this important, well let's say you have a 1080p file and you want to stream it remotely to your mobile device in a smaller file format (720p) to save on bandwidth.

That is a process of converting your audio and/or video file format into a suitable format for your PLEX client device in case the device itself is unable to "read" the media file correctly. One specific task that PLEX can do is called transcoding. What this means is that you will get into trouble if you choose a slow and weak device and expect it to do wonders. The important thing here is that as much as you can use almost any device as a PLEX client, the server-side might give you problems if you don't choose a device that is capable to play that role. It means that you need to have a running PLEX server that will handle the content management, and on top of that you need a PLEX client that will consume that content. Why? Well, PLEX is a client-server platform. Now that we know what PLEX is, it might be a question of where to host it. All platforms that support PLEX clients on their devices

#How to put sonarr and plex on mac tv#

Already 10+ years old, it offers a way to stream and organize your movies, tv shows, music, and private videos (even retro games) and present that content on almost any device known today. Just in case if you haven't, it's a media organization and streaming platform. If you haven't heard of PLEX, shame on you! Kidding. PLEX server aimed at models running DSM 7

#How to put sonarr and plex on mac download#

Be sure to download it from if you are running DSM7 beta or a later version! If you have any linux knowledge whatsoever I highly recommend building your own nas system instead of buying a prebuilt, if on the lower end it may be cheaper to get a prebuilt, but in terms of performance per dollar self built is going to win out pretty much every time, on the medium to high end its going to be a no-brainer as it will be cheaper and faster.UPDATE: 16/3/21 - PLEX has pushed out a DSM 7 specific version of their Synology server install. My entire system, which comprises of a 10c/20t xeon cpu, supermicro mobo, 128gb DDR4 ram, and case cost about $600 (excluding hard drives), to compare, the qnap 12+4 bay nas was $1250 and was an arm quad core CPU with 4gb of ram.ĭon't get me wrong the QNAP worked great serving up the storage and extremely easy to setup/use, but it was extremely non-performant in comparison to my current system and at a higher price point. You get essentially unlimited hard drive expansion capabilities (limited only by the amount of slots in the case you have which is normally 25-30 HDD at the very most ~ my case build will max out with 20 drives).

I'm a bit proponent of unraid for running Plex storage as well as the server itself in a VM/docker container (or freenas). So the biggest question is how comfortable are you building your own computer/nas and maintaining it?Ī prebuilt nas will be substantially easier to use and setup, however you're going to pay about 2x as much in cost and you will get about 1/3 of the capability.

#How to put sonarr and plex on mac software#

So my personal path for Plex the past decade or so was dual drive windows software raid 1 -> drobo 5 bay dual disk redundancy -> qnap 1635ax in raid 6 -> antec twelve hundred v3 tower using all 12 bays for hdd enclosures running unraid.