2024-01-28, 06:45 PM
(2024-01-27, 08:49 PM)red-broccoli Wrote: I have read that intel CPUs need to be 8th gen or above for QuickSync. Newer Synology NAS seem to not ahve intel CPUs anymore. The DS224+ has one, but per this forum, the latest jellyfish version does not support the transcoding on that CPU/NAS.
- It's not a hard requirement that you need 8th gen or above. The reason this is recommended is that starting with 8th gen Intel CPUs, HWA support for more of the popular codecs have been implemented into the CPU for Intel's Quick Sync. Take a look at this table to see which codec each generation of Intel CPUs support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding
- The DS224+ has the Intel Celeron J4125 CPU which contains the iGPU from the "Gemini Lake" generation. The name of the iGPU is the "UHD Graphics 600". If you look on the table from the wikipedia link, you can see that this generation of the iGPU supports decoding most of the current popular codecs except for AV1.
- You're a bit mistaken with seeing this forum say the CPU on the DS224+ can't HWA transcode with Jellyfin. What you're misreading is that Synology's current OS doesn't contain the necessary files to properly tone map HDR content. From my experience, HDR is much more prevalent with 4K content. So if most of your 4K content is HDR, most of the colors will looked washed out due to this. Transcoding will still work fine. Also keep in mind, as long as you have a CPU, you can transcode. Most of the people asking for help with transcoding is in regards with getting any type of GPU to do the transcoding. GPU transcoding (HWA) is faster than CPU transcoding which is why most people want to use it. Just configure Jellyfin to only HWA codecs that your system supports, then Jellyfin will only use the CPU to transcode the rest of the unsupported codecs.
It shouldn't matter where the media is located on your network as long as Jellyfin has proper access to it. As long as your NAS is in the same local network as the server, the speed at which an external server can access your NAS for media should be fast. Just make sure both the NAS and the server are connected using wires instead of relying on something like wifi to connect your devices to a router.