I don't have a problem, just kind of a question about something I don't get.
I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos lately learning how to do things in OMV and I've run across a lot of videos talking about building a home NAS. Most of them talk about needing 16gb of RAM and Xeon processors and other higher end equipment to properly transcode videos in Plex to your home devices. I don't get it. My test system was a Core 2 Duo cpu and my new server has only an i5-4400 cpu. Both systems only have 8gb of RAM. I tested both systems streaming 3 different .mkv movies to three different tv's around the house at the same time with two of the TV's connected to the server via wifi and none of them stuttered, buffered or had any issues. I even checked my CPU usage during these tests and while the Core 2 Duo was up in the 70-80% at times ranscoding three movies at once, neither of them max'd out or came close to maxing out. The i5 didn't even break the 30% mark.
So what am I missing that these people who most likely know a ton more than I do about this stuff suggest you need these massive systems to transcode with. Do they help with better stream quality because the movies all looked perfect to my eyes when I compared them to how they look running thru a Blu-Ray player. I haven't tested a remote stream yet, so would that be where the extra transcode power is needed?
Just curious because I naturally like to understand things that don't make sense to me...