Hello.
First of all, sorry for my poor english and if the question have been already asked !
I've read a lot of topic in several forum but i don't know what is the discussion still ok now. Sometimes, it's old topic (raspberry 2 or 3, but not 3b+)
I've bought my first raspberry for days ago.
I connect my raspberry with hdmi on my tv.
On my raspberry, i connect on USB a NTFS hard Drive.
I use omxplayer to read movies.
Now, i'd like to install a media player.
I installed Plex media server and i watch movies directly on PMS but videos are buffering and cpu is used on 90-100%. I read a lot but i don't find the solution . If i understand well, plex transcode videos.
Is it possible not to transcode movies because i read directly on PMS on rpi ? (I don't watch on another device with a Plex client)
Or does it better if I install rasplex on the same rpi ?
Is it possible to activate hardware acceleration ?
I have read an option exist to use acceleration hardware but i don't find it : is it in server or client ?
Or can we force plex to use an external player (omxplayer) ?
If there are no solution to use harware acceleration in plex, can you tell me what is the best media player for my utilisation ?
Many thanks in advance !