[ffsm8]

Surprising to read your take

Transcoding was the reason I moved away from Synology. The rest was fine, not great but ... Okay

But there was no way to improve transcoding performance. If a stream lagged, it would always lag. Hence I jumped ship and just made my own

[tracker1]

I now have a mini pc next to my NAS, and leaving my NAS to only file storage chores. That said, I also am running NVidia Shield TV Pro boxes with Kodi for local media and largely don't have to worry about the encoding.

[zeroflow]

I often read that take. Yes, the J4125 was fine for a few easy / low effort transcodes, like 1080p to 720p for mobile streaming.

But I'm with you. The rest is fine, not great, but rather working well enough.

[lobsterthief]

I bought an inexpensive used Mac Mini and attached a standard HDD USB3 enclosure to it with multiple drives. Works great for streaming to any network appliance I want to use.

[bombcar]

I gave up on transcoding and just recoded everything into the format the Apple TV with Infuse wants.

But my “NAS” is ex-lease enterprise server.