Plex media server, Rasplex and HEVC streaming

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I’m going to be upgrading the girlfriends pc soon to have a Xeon 1230v3 and a GTX 960. But I also have one of my old NAS hdd lying around, which I’ll also put in it with the plan to install plex as a media server.
Because this pc sits in her office, and she would watch on her TV in the living room, I would install Rasplex on a raspberry pi 2 that I have spare, as the media client in the living room.

The media on the NAS hdd is mostly 720p or 1080p HEVC/h265. Is this set-up going to be able to stream the content to the raspberry pi over her local network?

I figured the pc having a gtx 960, which has no problem with HEVC playback, it should be able to serve everything up over the network even to a raspberry pi, right?

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Hardware transcoding is an Alpha feature on Plex.

Note that HEVC decoding is also more intensive than H.264 decoding.

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I’ve done this exact scenario before. Really it comes down to your processor on the transcoding, the GPU doesn’t do much for Plex that I’ve seen. Your Xeon is MORE than enough and you shouldn’t have issues!

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Using the same setup, but my plex server is headless (so no gpu)

hevc transcoding will definitely put the cpu to work, but not noticable when you are streaming. This is from the plex website:

Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark scores are a good guideline for a requirement:

1080p/10Mbps: 2000 PassMark
720p/4Mbps: 1500 PassMark
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