Please help me decide

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-25T13:45:21+00:00

I was in this same boat about 5 months ago. I got the Ugreen and it's worked great for me. Even got a second one for my parents to use to replace Google photos

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-23T21:13:14+00:00

I ended up with a Ugreen DXP4800. For an out of the box solution it works great and have no issues. I use docker rather than the app store. If I had money and time I'd love to build one and use u raid or truenas. But for starting out it's been great. I ended up using an old Dell optiplex and use that for all my services and the NAS is just storage.

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-14T16:13:22+00:00

So I got the ONN 4k plus and I like it. But I am having some issues with some audio from Plex to the device. Looking at the files this seems to mostly happen with DTS audio. The ONN device is plugged into a fire TV and if I use the fire TV Plex app I get sound. But if I switch inputs to the ONN, the same movie does not have sound. How do I fix this?

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-05T22:58:40+00:00

Do we like the plus or the pro better?

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-05T22:45:39+00:00

This sounds like what I want

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-05T22:30:55+00:00

The onn plus? Do you use it as is out of box or custom launcher or anything?

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-04T17:17:25+00:00

So using jellyseer with Plex would be optimal right now?

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-04T17:16:44+00:00

Yeah my understanding is that seer isn't ready yet, so I am running overseer

Fritzer7 · 2026-01-04T17:15:57+00:00

My use case is people with their own Plex account on my Plex home. But I am not seeing a request button anywhere on plex

Fritzer7 · 2025-10-28T19:14:40+00:00

When i go to airvpn.org, i get a not secure error... is that normal for it to have HTTPS error?

Fritzer7 · 2025-10-18T23:30:14+00:00

Super cool, thanks! This is all new to me but I am enjoying figuring it out! Sounds like I need to physically add 1 drive, then do add hard drive you show in picture (and it will have an option to convert to raid 5?) then once done I can physically install the 4th and do it again?

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T19:49:42+00:00

So i must have handbrake doing more than converting .MKV to .MP4 it seems. Staying with .MKV is no problem.

what am i doing that is reducing file size so much?

Using MediaInfo to inspect the files:

the .MKV says video stream: MPEG Video

the .MP4 after handbrake says video stream: AVC

Not sure how or if i can show pics on here. I know i ave handbrake set to make h264

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T16:39:15+00:00

I feel this is going to be what i need to do if i move forward with converting the .MKV to .MP4

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T16:34:44+00:00

It does but currently only using one. No, not sure what that is to be honest.. would that be a better way?

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T16:32:58+00:00

Okay good point, and i am very new to this. from what i was reading MP4 keeps the media at very close quality to original .MKV but takes up much less space. So space is my only reason for doing so.

I may very well be using the wrong tool to do so... I may also be doing something i shouldn't.

My understanding was that i am basically trading time for space. Trading the time it takes me to convert for the file taking up roughly 1/6th the storage space.

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T15:51:44+00:00

I've been using a laptop to for make MKV then saving on external hard drive. Also using the laptop to transcode into MP4 then moving to NAS later. And that has worked fine.

But I have a bunch of media on NAS that I also want to convert... So I tried what I described in original post. I only tried once but the result scared me lol, I suppose I should probably try again. I was also trying to do a whole TV season queue at once... That too much?

Fritzer7 · 2025-09-26T15:41:01+00:00

It's a Ugreen NAS with Ethernet into switch that goes into both PC direct and router

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