Surprising to read your take Transcoding was the reason I moved away from Synolo...

tracker1 · 2025-10-08T17:05:51 1759943151

I now have a mini pc next to my NAS, and leaving my NAS to only file storage chores. That said, I also am running NVidia Shield TV Pro boxes with Kodi for local media and largely don't have to worry about the encoding.

zeroflow · 2025-10-08T11:35:59 1759923359

I often read that take. Yes, the J4125 was fine for a few easy / low effort transcodes, like 1080p to 720p for mobile streaming.

But I'm with you. The rest is fine, not great, but rather working well enough.

lobsterthief · 2025-10-08T11:01:43 1759921303

I bought an inexpensive used Mac Mini and attached a standard HDD USB3 enclosure to it with multiple drives. Works great for streaming to any network appliance I want to use.

bombcar · 2025-10-08T15:47:32 1759938452

I gave up on transcoding and just recoded everything into the format the Apple TV with Infuse wants.

But my “NAS” is ex-lease enterprise server.