Hardware and Software Transcoding What is the Difference

Описание: A Guide to choosing a NAS with Hardware or Software Transcoding https://nascompares.com/2017/11/30/th...

With the rise in popularity of Network Attached Storage (NAS) it is becoming all too common to consider a Synology NAS, QNAP NAS or WD My Cloud server as the perfect storage of all of your multimedia. From the compact nature of it’s design to the sheer unparalleled accessibility that you get from it, creating a DLNA server or Plex Media Server as your go-to media collection is both easy and hundreds of times less expensive than having your movies, boxsets, albums, photos and music spread across multiple locations through your home – with the added benefit that you can access that media absolutely anywhere with an internet connection. However as media files are getting bigger and bigger, and most media playback devices we buy are generally owned for 2-3 years at least – it is all too often that the development and evolution of the software overtake the hardware. The result is that files need to be adapted and changed in order to be better suited for playback on the output device. In real-time that means that your 2017 4K copy of ‘Spiderman Homecoming’ may well not play very well on your 2014 Smart TV or 2013 Android Smartphone. The way around this is known as ‘Transcoding’ and it is a vital consideration when buying the best NAS for your media. But what exactly is transcoding and why is it so important?

Transcoding is the ability to change a file (video, music or photo) into a size, file format, resolution or name to a format more acceptable to the client machine (the thing you are viewing it on). In almost all cases, the transcoding of any file is performed by the NAS, on the fly, whilst you are viewing the file and different NAS devices can transcoding to a lesser or greater degree, as well as the more powerful NAS devices transcoding more than one file at one (for users or homes that will have multiple users access the media server at once). Transcoding is also dictated by two key factors on all NAS. First by the CPU inside the NAS and second by the software you are using to watch the multimedia in the first place. For transcoding to be enabled on your NAS, you need to check that your NAS CPU features a ‘transcoding Engine’.

If you are using the official Synology or QNAP applications to arrange your DLNA media server and are accessing that from your smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet or other DLNA enabled device – this is known as NATIVE playback. If you are using PLEX or another 3rd party application to access the contents of the NAS media to playback on the devices, then this is 3RD PARTY TRANSCODING.

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