Hi
I own a ds218+,
plex was not available for this model when I got it.
I installed an apollolake compatible compiled version (PlexMediaServer-1.9.6.4429-23901a099-x86_64) by the community from https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues/2945
I then purchased a plex pass and activated hardware accelerated transcoding, CPU usage dropped from 99% to 40% for average 1080p 30mb h264 files.
Everything worked fine except subtitles dropping from times to times.
After upgrading to latest PlexMediaServer-1.10.1.4602-f54242b6b-x86 version, the hardware acceleration button is not available anymore and CPU usage is back to 99% causing pauses in the playback.
After de-installing and re-installing the former 1.9.6 version, the button reappeared and everything worked fine again
Is this issue with apollolake cpu based Synology NASes going to be fixed ? is there anything that can be done with later versions (1.10xxx) ?
thank you