With most users now owning decades of media (either in digital form or ripped from optical media at home), the ability to enjoy these box sets and Movies on the latest devices can be complicated. One of the most popular reasons that users choose to buy a network-attached storage (NAS) device is for use as a media server. I'm aware that I need Plex Pass for that, the main thing is now.Plex Vs Synology Video Station on a NAS in 2021/2022 Otherwise even 1080p files won't all playback smoothly according to the info I found. So since I don't have the fastest NAS, I want to make use of that hardware transcoding capability. And that's that for hardware transcoding I can only use the app directly downloaded from the Plex site, is this correct? Apparently the app in the Package Center is only 32 bit? And the app on the website is the only version that is 64 bit. I did check some threads in this sub and I found some info I didn't know yet.

But that isn't really convenient, so I want the media server running on my NAS obviously. I'm running the server on my (high end) PC right now and just login when I want a watch something. Recently I wanted to give Plex (yet) another try, because it should be so convenient.

Nowadays I have a few Docker apps running, but I run into problems with a lot of containers getting them to work with my firewall. I never used or knew anything about Docker and didn't have a time/energy at the time to dive into it.

People advised me to go with Docker and that I shouldn't use Synology apps in general. I have a 418play and ran into some problems in the past with the Plex app from the Package Center.

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