Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

I immediately changed these four Plex settings, and my personal media server setup is all the better for it.

I'm working on transcoding our physical DVD library to something more server-based, partly so we can pull the DVDs off the shelf, partly because with a toddler, Plex seems likely to lead to less chaos ...