Does my Synology support Hardware Transcoding?īefore we do anything else, you need to make sure your model of Synology has hardware transcoding capabilities. If you don’t have one you can either follow this guide or jump over to the non hardware transcoding version. You will only benefit from hardware transcoding if you have an active Plex Pass either monthly or lifetime.

However, don’t freak out as it’s not that difficult! Plex Pass In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Plex in Docker using Docker Compose.Īs of writing the Synology UI does not have the capability of passing through specific hardware to a container, this means we will need to set up Plex via SSH (terminal). Updated the Hardware Transcode section it’s now much easier Updated Environment Variables to ensure server is updating to the latest versionĪdded Timezone Variable to the compose fileĪmended the Plex image to pull from dockerhub to make updates easier Step 3: Setting Up a Docker Bridge NetworkĪdded note around Ryzen based Synology models.Step 2: Setting up a restricted Docker user and obtaining IDs.

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