Plex Hardware Transcoding Explained : Do you need it? What is the performance like?

Get a Plex Pass: http://lon.tv/plexpass - For this month's Plex sponsored video we take a look at hardware transcoding and how it can dramatically improve the streaming performance of low-end Intel hardware. See more Plex: http://lon.tv/plexhdhr and subscribe! http://lon.tv/s

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Pepper Jobs Mini PC review:
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VIDEO INDEX:
0:00 - Intro
01:22 - Transcoding explained
02:34 - Hardware that supports transcoding
03:38 - Performance: Hardware transcoding switched off
05:17 - Enabling hardware transcoding
05:57 - Performance: Hardware Transcoding Enabled
06:25 - Monitoring transcoding
07:13 - Performance: Multiple Streams
09:01 - PC used for testing - http://lon.tv/l6js (affiliate link)

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