What I'm going to do is try to use NVENC with Emby and Plex, if both of them work then I'll have to make a decision, if only one of the two works, then I'll go with that one.Įmby has users accounts for free, Plex you have to pay (note: quote below).Īhh thanks for this, I forgot to add it to the OP. Yea multiple user support for free is good, but it doesn't have the "optimize" video feature for free, which Plex does. I actually use the remote streaming more than local. I guess I'll just have to try each one and see what works.Įmby has that for free as well. That being said the feature that's most important to me is being able to use HW transcoding so whichever platform supports it better will get my money. I'll have to try out plex again, but if I remember correctly and it hasn't changed much, Plex libraries dont have as many customization options as Emby. One of the big use cases is going to be remote streaming and there's no way my upload can handle a 4k video so I'll either have to make smaller 1080p versions or find a way to transcode (hopefully through hw transcoders). I haven't had any real issues with plex, so I've never tried anything else. Transcoding on the fly is going to butcher performance. Plex will stream 4k if you have it in the right codec/container. In terms of matching, it hasn't failed me yet except for a handful of anime. That way you don't have to fix incorrect matches en mass. I'd use filebot to rename the files properly to help plex out. Plex is more polished but Emby has developers that actually listen and are active.Īre there any other major differences I'm missing? What do you guys use and why?ĮDIT: I've seen Plex working with NVENC but can't find any actual documentation that it officially supports it. (I would use this)Įmby supports NVENC and QSV, Plex only supports QSV. (I would use this)Įmby you have multiple users for free, Plex you have to pay. Plex you can save versions for free, Emby you have to pay. The main differences I can think of right now are as follows: The Plex solution is to transcode and save a 1080p h264 copy, the Emby solution is to run it on a system that supports hardware decoding/encoding (or buy premium and do the same as Plex). The big issue I have is getting 4k HEVC video to transcode and stream to my client devices. In the mean time it looks like Plex has updated it's UI a bit and gotten better at scraping info. Eventually I got into Emby and it's been pretty good so far but it's still not completely polished and it has random bugs here an there. I ran Plex a while ago when I was first getting into media servers but it was terrible at scraping the correct metadata.
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