Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I run plex on a synology nas whose kernel is too out of date for hardware accelerated transcoding in Jellyfin.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t you just use a newer kernel?

    Wouldn’t this also be a significant security issue?

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, diskstation runs a significantly modified 2.4 kernel. They say they backport CSM mitigations/fixes into their kernel, but community pressure is crowing by the year for them to update.

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      • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Holy shit, I remember being excited for 2.4 because of iptables. That was over twenty years ago.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have you considered just installing Debian?

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  • trd@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I recently went from synology video to Jellyfin cause the last update on synology dont support the video hosting anymore. I run a syn 920. And its sweet only issue so far have been able to use jellyfin to cast to Chromecast.

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been about a year since I tried it, so it’s probably worth another. Back then it did OK if I was doing straight passthrough (though CPU load was noticeably higher) but I got a lot of buffering when I’d try to have it transcode anything.

      I host quite a few things on it (via docker) so the 920 is starting to show its load. I suspect that and the lack of hardware acceleration are the source of my issues.

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      • trd@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I should probably mention i did upgrade it past the supported kernel and doubled the ram, i only host pihole and bitwarden and jellyfin. But docker makes things so much easier and fun.

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