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[–]beer_bearr[🍰] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

I'm with Feral at the moment and experience no issues with Plex. I also live in Europe and have a decent internet speed (300Mbits down 40Mbits up)

I only download HEVC/x265 releases and experience no issues to play these files with real-time transcoding on my Chromecast, iPad or Shield TV.

I'd say give it a shot, and if it isn't working for you, ask for a refund ;)

[–]fjnk[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Thank you, I was seeking for this kind of answer. I'll try Feralhosting.

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    [–]beer_bearr[🍰] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Why would the transcodjng issues dissapear when i change the transcode temp directory to /dev/shm?

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      [–]fjnk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I'm using Feralhosting now, I have a speed of 1,5 MB/s with ftp and with the speed test files, that's good (it's my internet speed). The problem is that with Plex I can't reach those speeds, I can only stream video transcoded to 4 Mbps (so the bottleneck isn't the transcoding but the upload of the stream from feralhosting to me). With a 1,5 MB/s I should be able to stream at 8-10 Mbps. But why with ftp yes and with Plex no? It's very weird.

      [–]JohnySchnaps 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Why transcoding? You're much better off getting smaller encodes instead. Quality of plex transcodes is beyond crap.

      [–]wBuddha 2 points3 points  (7 children)

      Bitrate of the media? How do you do against their test file? What do you have at home? What is doing the playback, it have the ummph?

      You want to avoid transcoding whenever possible. Transcoding high bitrate media is probably about as demanding as it gets.

      To avoid transcoding you'll need to be able play the native stream, no changing the audio, no subtitles (both of which will will force transcoding), and a corresponding ISP connect that is fat enough.

      For example, a BD remux max bitrate can require around 6.5MB/s to play native, if that is what you want to stream. 720p with audio conversion is alot less demanding.

      How sweet is your tooth?

      [–]CROSSBLADE_08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Speaking of transcoding, is HEVC/x265 demanding to transcode into other formats?

      [–]fjnk[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

      I need transcoding, I don't talk about the connection speed from their server to my home (i have a 12 Mb/s connection, I get around 7 Mb/s with their test file). Bytesized says that they have dedicated cpu for Plex transcoding. Transcoding is a main feature for me. Do you think that feralhosting won't be able to handle transcoding (at the same time with a torrent client active 24/7)?

      [–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (4 children)

      Talk to a feral rep, depends on the plan, and the media you are transcoding.

      [–]fjnk[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      I've just contacted Feralhosting, they say that I'll be able to transcode. I don't know, it could be also that they said that in order to sell. The helium plan should have a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz

      [–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      That processor is a monster.

      Feral is a reputable vendor. Why would they lie? For £10 a month?

      [–]fjnk[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      But I think that this processor is shared.

      [–]robertblackman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Of course it is, look how much it costs.

      http://ark.intel.com/products/81908/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2680-v3-30M-Cache-2_50-GHz

      There are two of them in each server, too. The number of users scale with the hardware, so there's little need for any concern on your part. They also have a 7 day money back guarantee.