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The resource manager was pegged at 98-100% and only a second or two would play, with the player reporting the CPU wasn’t powerful enough. It was not too surprising, but 4K videos was a definitive no-go. We switched over to Plex for the next test, with both Plex as the server on the NAS and the Plex player on the tablet. We tried an H.265 based video, but this would stutter frequently as neither the tablet nor the NAS could decode or transcode fast enough with just software. Image quality was obviously inferior, with noticeable banding in gradients, and fast motion sometimes cause macro-blocking in areas, but otherwise perfectly acceptable on a 7-inch screen. Checking the NAS resource manager, we saw that only 20-30% of the CPU was used for transcoding the 4K video. MX player helped keep things smooth with additional acceleration on the tablet. When playing back the 4K video through DS Video on the tablet, there is a slight delay as it caches, but otherwise works flawlessly. DS Video can link to any other media player on the tablet, and Synology even recommends people use MX player, as it allows for a broad range of video formats and additional hardware acceleration on the device.
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You need to download DS Video first in order to access the NAS and use the transcoder (however, if the device can support the format natively, this is not required). To test this out, we uploaded a 4K H.264 video to the NAS and then streamed it from a tablet, in this case a 2nd Gen Nexus 7.
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The main difference between Synology’s Video Station and Plex comes down to the transcoder – at this time, Plex can not access the hardware transcoder on the DS216+, and fully relies on the software decoder of the CPU (at least through our testing). If you already have some investment into the Plex platform, it’s worth sticking with it if you can, as it provides a broad range of connectivity options for TVs, mobiles, tablets and media sticks like Roku and Chromecast. Plex is a third-party home theatre and media server that’s very popular, and can be installed manually from its website.
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Video Station works as the media server on the NAS, and is Synology’s equivalent of Kodi or Plex, allowing for not just streaming, but indexing and as a transcoder for mobile devices that can not support full resolution files. There are three main media servers for Synology, Media Server is Synology’s DLNA compatible network media broadcaster, and works as a simple interface for other applications to link to for direct streaming. For hardware acceleration of H.265, you will need to get the DS216play. The newer codec, H.265 can not be transcoded in hardware with these particular NASes, but instead relies on the software transcoder. There are a couple of limitations with this that need to be mentioned, and the big one is that it’s limited to H.264 compatible formats only. As mentioned earlier in the review, the DS216+, much like the DS716+, has hardware support for 4K video transcoding down to 1080p.
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