


I'm considering offline sync to mobile in the future, and possibly occasional streaming on WAN. I stream to a Shield TV and a Chromecast locally. I largely use subtitles, some of them in this bitmap format that I read is not CPU-friendly. I have a collection of 4K and/or HEVC films/series. My use case: media is stored on a low-budget NAS (DS213j). I'm considering moving the server to a NUC or a NAS but I just can't make up my mind although I went through tens of threads here and there.

HW acceleration is good but I think the CPU isn't just up to it when it comes to transcoding audio and burning-in subtitles. I recently switched to Emby but still find the server not as responsive as I'd like. I've been a long-time user of Plex server on Shield TV but found it quite buggy these past months.
