I tried setting up my system for TVE, my TV Provider was on the list but when I went to sign in it popped up and said that TVE was not supported with an ARM server. Is this a temporary thing and you will eventually support ARM processors or am I just doomed to not have it unless I buy a new server?
Correct, it doesn't work on ARM NAS. That's not something that can be added.
I'm a bit confused on the server support. I am currently running on a 4 year old Synology with an ARM processor so it can't support the TVE. I also can't run the commercial detection since I don't have enough memory.
If I were to move the server to a Mac mini would it also not support TVE since I believe it is an ARM chip. If it had 8 GB of memory would that be enough for commercial detection to run again?
Also thinking about upgrading the Synology to one with an Intel chip. Would that configuration support TVE and commercial detection (assuming I got 6 or 8 GB of memory)?
Only old ARMv7 chips cannot do TVE. ARM8/arm64 processors have no issues with TVE.
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I have an M1 Mac Mini (I will check the specs) which runs Channels DVR (including the TVE with THOUSANDS of channels - literally) and multiple household clients - works great, even commercial detection. I think 8GB might work okay on Mac for detection but I'll double check, I think I got 16GB RAM on mine.
EDIT - 16GB, here's a snapshot. 2707 channels, it gets a bit wonky when loading them all up on the guide but you should be fine with a lower number.
4 GB works fine on a Synologhy DS920+
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I think the OP is asking if any ARM Processors (Mac Mini) are supported.
I also know the newest Synology NAS models are not Intel Processors.
I have a Synology NAS ARM64 based server and it works (albeit some limitations and occasional issues that pops up, but devs are quick to resolve).
As it relates to the new Synology NAS boxes, they introduced AMD Ryzen chips which are the same architecture as Intel chips, so no need for different coding. Basically you now have ARM64 versions which is the low end NAS, and a mix of Intel and AMD depending on need.
The only current Synology Plus Series NAS's with Intel CPU and GPU (for hardware transcoding) I can find on their website are the DS423+ and DS620slim
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