My Plex box (dual core Pentium G3258) is using 11% CPU now, streaming a video to a tablet. I don't know if old metadata stored inside plex ever gets removed. If there is lots of new content, creating those screenshots for all the video content can take weeks. That turns into a huge amount of storage used for images that may never be used. I think that is enabled by default, but can be disabled. As for storage abuse, plex will happily make screen shot images every 30 sec of a movie to make feedback during ffwd/rwnd show the frame. This would hit 1 CPU at 50%-100% easily for hidef transcodes. Was I just doing it wrong?Īs for plex resource use - plex can transcode to support specific formats required by lower-end devices like a roku or chromecast. The full rescan was just too abusive for a non-trivial library. MiniDLNA was never current with the content. After watching, most recordings are deleted. We record TV, remove commercials, transcode to save 75% of the storage, then add it into the library. I tried to use miniDLNA, but it wasn't keeping the catalogue current. Plex certainly does keep reminding you that you are not using plex-pass but it's not really nagging they are, after all, a business trying to make some money, and so far at least the extras available with a plex-pass have not been of any real use to me so I have been using it without any cost. It is still very easy to use once you have figured out the way it lists displays the media types, ie, pictures, video and music, separately on the clients. For some reason that I never really managed to find a reason for I found enabling the dlna server in plex raised it's resource use hugely, occasionally bringing a previous machine almost to a halt, so I tried minidlna and that worked fine with low resource usage.Īt all times I find that minidlna requires and uses much lower resources than plex, but it is not quite as user friendly, not having such a fully featured display on the client device. I use a plexmediaserver for streaming music, videos and pictures to my Smart TV with no problems, but I also have minidlna running on a low powered laptop and that also works well on the TV and other client devices.
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