2024-10-02, 04:42 AM
I looked up the specs for your NAS here: https://www.synology.com/en-sg/products/DS223#specs
Synology (& other NAS vendors) purposefully use low-powered CPUs in order to have units consume low amounts of power/watts. Users that buy pre-built NAS machines typically want something low-powered in that sense since they're meant to be turned on 24/7. This is not a problem if you're doing basic file storage activities and the basic file scrub to check for data corruption (thanks to Synology's BTRFS file system).
There's just two issues with it for Jellyfin:
Now, Synology moved away from using Intel CPUs in most of their Plus models. This is important because they were "good enough" to run a simple Jellyfin server. The reason being that Intel CPUs come with an integrated GPU (iGPU).
The biggest workload media servers face is transcoding media. A GPU can significantly speed up a transcode since they have built in hardware to accelerate transcoding certain codecs (HWA).
In the case of Intel CPUs, they use something called Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video).
Their 4 bay NAS models were popular, and the last 4-bay model that came with an Intel CPU was the DS920+. It's no longer in production, but people go out of their way still to see if they can buy a used model due to that.
I actually own a DS920+ with Jellyfin running on it, and it's perfectly fine for a small setup with 1-3 people watching from it at once (1080p content mostly with HWA).
There are still Synology models that ship with an Intel CPU, so if you ever decide to buy one of those to replace the one you have, you can follow my guide to get Jellyfin set up here: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-guide-runni...er-compose
If you want a computer that acts as a NAS, you can build your own (so you can choose your desired hardware) and install any NAS OS like TrueNAS or Unraid.
As for your issue with anime, you're most likely trying to play files with ASS subs. ASS subtitles are not as supported as other sub types (SRT specifically) and will need to be burned into the video in most cases.
So when you're watching anime, you need to be using a client that directly supports playing ASS subs to avoid having to burn them in with a transcode. Current Jellyfin clients that support direct playing ASS subs are Jellyfin Media Player, MPV Shim, & Findroid.
Finally, it should be possible to host your media on a NAS and link the media to another PC running Jellyfin.
Synology (& other NAS vendors) purposefully use low-powered CPUs in order to have units consume low amounts of power/watts. Users that buy pre-built NAS machines typically want something low-powered in that sense since they're meant to be turned on 24/7. This is not a problem if you're doing basic file storage activities and the basic file scrub to check for data corruption (thanks to Synology's BTRFS file system).
There's just two issues with it for Jellyfin:
- The CPU is a Realtek CPU which Jellyfin doesn't support much.
- The HDDs will be used for everything. This will slow down Jellyfin since both the configuration files will be stored there alongside the media. Accessing one will slow down access of the other.
Now, Synology moved away from using Intel CPUs in most of their Plus models. This is important because they were "good enough" to run a simple Jellyfin server. The reason being that Intel CPUs come with an integrated GPU (iGPU).
The biggest workload media servers face is transcoding media. A GPU can significantly speed up a transcode since they have built in hardware to accelerate transcoding certain codecs (HWA).
In the case of Intel CPUs, they use something called Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video).
Their 4 bay NAS models were popular, and the last 4-bay model that came with an Intel CPU was the DS920+. It's no longer in production, but people go out of their way still to see if they can buy a used model due to that.
I actually own a DS920+ with Jellyfin running on it, and it's perfectly fine for a small setup with 1-3 people watching from it at once (1080p content mostly with HWA).
There are still Synology models that ship with an Intel CPU, so if you ever decide to buy one of those to replace the one you have, you can follow my guide to get Jellyfin set up here: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-guide-runni...er-compose
If you want a computer that acts as a NAS, you can build your own (so you can choose your desired hardware) and install any NAS OS like TrueNAS or Unraid.
As for your issue with anime, you're most likely trying to play files with ASS subs. ASS subtitles are not as supported as other sub types (SRT specifically) and will need to be burned into the video in most cases.
So when you're watching anime, you need to be using a client that directly supports playing ASS subs to avoid having to burn them in with a transcode. Current Jellyfin clients that support direct playing ASS subs are Jellyfin Media Player, MPV Shim, & Findroid.
Finally, it should be possible to host your media on a NAS and link the media to another PC running Jellyfin.
