The network speed is not an issue.Īs for transcoding, the solution to that is not to transcode. No, the latest Raspberry Pi models use USB 32.0 and has a gigabit interface over it, which means you get up to 300mbps throughput. I suppose for ease's sake I'm asking because we already have a Raspberry Pi 3, pretty sure it's the B+. I found an old Reddit post talking about using the Raspberry, and it seemed like it should be enough to at least play the videos. or does Plex always use Internet? Would it be better to run the external hard drive straight through the Raspberry, or through the router? Does it make a difference? I don't know how Plex works, if I have all the meta-data n such for all the movies (like I currently do) and switch it to the Raspberry does all that stay there, or is it going to take weeks for the raspberry to get all that information again? How viable is it to use a Raspberry as a server? I don't know if it matters, but any amount of video streaming would be just over the local home network, I doubt there's going to be any Internet streaming. I've got the only PC in the house and I don't want it constantly running because I'm not into that sort of thing. Long story short, can we use a Raspberry Pi for the server? I mean, I've seen 'tutorials' around online so I know I can but I want to know if it's just an awful idea altogether or something.

I can plug it into the router, and then I can at least access it on my PC, but for some reason the TV barely reads any files off of it.Įnter Plex it would seem.

We had the hard drive plugged into the TV, but the TV interface sucks and I can't access it on my PS4 or PC. My brother recently decided to go through all of our DVDs and CDs and get the whole digital library going on an external hard drive.

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