…While Plex is the most polished and streamlined self-hosted media app out there, the additional cost of a Plex Pass, which also adds other more advanced features like hardware transcoding, the…
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…Luckily, the voices of consumers were heard, and the brand decided to reverse course, opening up its NAS devices to other drives with a firmware update. We appreciate Synology for listening and…
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…Jellyfin improved support so these subtitles render correctly in the browser player without needing to transcode them into the video stream. 06 / 8 Features What hardware acceleration method did Jellyfin add support…
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