Serviio

Hi,

I've been troubled by a question about ServiiGo. I'm thinking about buying a NAS to share media at home and stream it to my TV, tablet, phone... That way, I can shut down my pc and still watch media on TV.

But what if I decide to buy Serviio Pro and want to watch content on the NAS on my tablet at a friend's house? What kind of NAS do I need? (I read about Media-support, FTP-support, Printer-support, download clients etc.)

Obviously, I need a NAS that supports mediastreaming. But for ServiioGo, do I need FTP or something specific?


Best regards,

ps: looking at a Western Digital My Cloud 4 TB

You need a nas you can install serviio on....

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AND enough STRONG processor in IT to transcode videos.... so maybe better to take used PC and install Serviio on it, then use it as media server without keyboard/monitor/mouse?

Thanks for your replies.

As I'll use a WD TV Live in the future to stream to my TV, transcoding won't be problem in that case. But when I stream to my tablet (Nexus 10) or phone, some transcoding is probably necessary. Furthermore, I'd want to use Sick Beard and some apps. Which model has sufficient CPU-power to accomplish this?

I'm looking at Synology DS213J, DS214, DS214 Play or DS214+.

Why do you think a used PC would be better? I know a NAS should consume less power. Any other (dis)advantages?

It depends. When you use original quality, then only online content is transcoded, and in most cases its actually just re-packaged into a different container which is very easy on the CPU.

If you use Medium/Low then that requires transcoding. There are two profile options, Standard and Enhanced. Standard uses mpeg2 which is pretty light on the CPU, whereas Enhanced uses h264 which is more intensive. That being said, my server uses an Intel Atom D525, and that can just keep up with transcoding under medium quality using h264, although it does stutter a bit. Dropping the resolution slightly makes it OK, although it cannot handle movies with very wide aspect ratio without dropping the resolution further.

So, a NAS with a new intel atom might be fine for your needs. But the ARM based ones won't be.