(PR2100 / PR4100 Only!)
If your plex server comes up with the message “Server is not power full enough” it means you don’t have experimental encoding turned on without the hardware acceleration its definitely not powerful enough to encode the videos also note not all videos require transcoding which is why it might only happen sometimes or every time.
Another indication of this problem is if you see the cpu usage, the plex server is only able to run a transcode job on a single core so if you check the cores you will notice a single core hitting 97% while the others are idle often giving you a 25% or a little more in cpu usage as a hole.
The solution for this problem is very easy, Usually this is on by default but to manually turn on the hardware transcoding all you need to do is go to settings, click the show advanced button on the right side and then click on transcoder on the left side, there you will see a little box for Use experimental hardware acceleration, make sure you check that box, After doing all that you still don’t see the experimental check mark box in transcode with advanced on then it means your current version of plex is outdated, you will need to update.
