Whichever one you have, there's more to know beyond the basics. Roku devices offer plenty of variety and portability, from the budget Roku Express (Opens in a new tab) to the feature-packed Roku Ultra (Opens in a new tab). Roku is a popular choice, particularly as it ramps up its own original content (Opens in a new tab). Plex WILL transcode on that and it while it's a weak GPU for games it does OK with transcoding.You probably want a streaming device (Opens in a new tab) for your TV, whether you're a cord cutter (Opens in a new tab) or not. What you could possibly do to help you out is drop something like an Nvidia 730 GPU in your server. The dashboard in Plex or Tautulli can give you some info there about that. It could also be a network speed thing as well on either end if you are going across your network from Plex server to Roku. You can also install Tautulli which will give you even more info. If you look at the Plex dashboard during your playing of a title it will tell you what's going on. Plex DOES do hardware encoding (which is MUCH faster) but it will only do so on Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Now in your case IF something needs to be transcoded it's going to happen on general CPU. I have several devices in the the chain in my case and I had to dink with all of them to make it all play nice together. There are multiple devices involved here and anyone of them could have incorrect settings that might fix your problem. Personally I think it is a situation you can solve with what you have you just must find the core problem.
I've thought: New HTPC in a tower case with sufficient drive bays and a RAID controller of some sort, NUC & NAS, ? I would just have to Google to figure out which RAID and how many drives are needed for it. I would guess that some flavor of RAID is what I would want in order to not have to worry as much about a drive crash or content loss. 12TB TOTAL for media should be plenty, (which is an upgrade from my current 6TB that has just under 1TB free.) I don't have any remote users and it's only my wife and me in the house. I find myself sitting on the fence regarding the best approach and am hoping for some real-world equipment scenarios that will help me make a decision. 265 1080p videos with subtitles for 5-10 seconds is becoming a nuisance. Mobo with ATI Radeon HD4290 graphics, AMD Phenom II CPU and maxed memory at 8GB. I am in need of more transcoding horsepower than my very-long-in-the-tooth HTPC is able to provide. (I don't have anything 4K, so I don't know how that would work.) The performance increase is absolutely amazing. Everything is in that one box, which has an ethernet connection to my LAN. I considered pretty much all the options and ended up buying a more-than-capable Amazon refurb to use as an HTPC for less than half the cost of building one. UPDATE: I've been thinking about all of this since this post.
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