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AlexPresso / VideoStation-FFMPEG-Patcher

Patcher to enable DTS, EAC3 and TrueHD transcoding support to Synology VideoStation (from DSM 6.2 to DSM 7.0 and above ; ffmpeg4, 5, 6, 7 ready)
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[QA] DS923+ and Transcoding Videos #136

Closed KidWar75 closed 3 months ago

KidWar75 commented 4 months ago

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Question Hello,

Sorry if it's a noob question but I can't find any answers ^^ I have an issue with my DS920+ ; It might be replaced with by Synology with the DS923+ The DS923+ doesn't have a iGPU anymore (compared to the DS920+) which is used to Transcode video & audio.

I was wondering if it might be an issue with your patcher & DS Video / VideoStation if I end up with the DS923+.

I have loads of person using VideoStation on there iPhone / Android / Android Boxes / Apple TVs etc. I wouldn't want it to be an issue.. ^^

Thx for the help ! :)

Kid.

AlexPresso commented 4 months ago

Hello @KidWar75,

No worries, I'm happy to help if I can :)

As you said, the DS923+ doesn't have an iGPU. While it won't cause any issue with the patcher itself (you can patch any NAS of any architecture even if not having a GPU), you may be unable to play/transcode hardware encoded video formats like H.264 and H.265 (these formats are widely used).

I have no idea if that's a possible choice for you, but I would highly recommend choosing a NAS having an iGPU, specially if you're having a lot of users, a CPU without hardware transcoding will suffer a lot to play your movies even if you pre-transcode them with offline transcoding

Alex