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Synology’s 2025 refresh brought the DS225+ and DS425+ with the familiar Intel Celeron J4125, but it also quietly removed the kernel graphics driver support that Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby use for hardware transcoding of H.264 and HEVC. This guide explains what changed, why it matters for real-world streaming, and how you can restore GPU-accelerated transcoding on these models using an unofficial SSH method shared by the community. If you rely on your NAS to reshape 4K or high bitrate files for phones, tablets, hotel TVs, or limited connections, this walkthrough will help you get that efficiency back.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago (21 children)

Are there any great alternatives that are easy to use off the shelf (with our own drives) that can compete here?

I'm basically to the point where my next NAS will end up just being a linux desktop running truenas which sounds like a lot of tinkering for something that should have a simple solution. I don't want to have to buy some big expensive enterprise array for a prosumer use case.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I use Xpenology on an HP Gen 8 microswrver, a pretty nifty piece of kit. Works great, but setting up and upgrading versions can be a rather involved process.

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