Synology’s 2025 refresh brought the DS225+ and DS425+ with the familiar Intel Celeron J4125, but it also quietly removed the kernel graphics driver support that Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby use for hardware transcoding of H.264 and HEVC. This guide explains what changed, why it matters for real-world streaming, and how you can restore GPU-accelerated transcoding on these models using an unofficial SSH method shared by the community. If you rely on your NAS to reshape 4K or high bitrate files for phones, tablets, hotel TVs, or limited connections, this walkthrough will help you get that efficiency back.
I am back on Kodi on Android TV box for a long time.
The official Synology app kind of sucks anyways. I used to use the Samsung app that played like 75 percent of the movies and not the rest, some codec BS.
So kodi is not push, it’s pull. That whole Mediaserver thing is obsolete with it. It’s a pity because technically that other system is superior and is running for no reason now.
Oh and my nas is so old it is too slow to transcode anyways.