Hello, forum users! It’s time again for an update to Plex’s transcoding and analysis backend. This is a special forums-only preview release; the changes in this build will be included in an upcoming regular release once any new issues are handled. Please test this version with a variety of differen…

@jpirotte @Essam01 Same here, no noticeable improvements over the last release (other than no crashes). I still have stuttering playing back 1080i MPEG2 streams (although, it seems like a few seconds between stutters, instead of every second?). @rcombs I should be able to pull some logs and a exampl…

What’s the “green server”?

@joneric said: What’s the “green server”? Emby; since you asked :slight_smile:

@rcombs @silence21 I was finally able to get a small enough 1080i MPEG2 file to upload. To summarize my previous post, DVR’d shows that are 1080i buffer very often, while 720p works perfectly. Thanks

@jpirotte I, for one, thank you for your work! Home improvement projects kept me from doing any real testing this weekend. Thanks!

For those of you transcoding 4K HDR files, does this preview version allow for proper tone mapping when converting to SDR?

@Balthazar2k4 said: For those of you transcoding 4K HDR files, does this preview version allow for proper tone mapping when converting to SDR? I’ve tested a few 4k HDR files, and the tone mapping still doesn’t work for me.

@jpirotte said: @rcombs @silence21 I was finally able to get a small enough 1080i MPEG2 file to upload. To summarize my previous post, DVR’d shows that are 1080i buffer very often, while 720p works perfectly. Thanks @jpirotte I suspect it is the CPU-side deinterlacer (we don’t currently suppor…

@chrisallen said: @jpirotte said: @rcombs @silence21 I was finally able to get a small enough 1080i MPEG2 file to upload. To summarize my previous post, DVR’d shows that are 1080i buffer very often, while 720p works perfectly. Thanks @jpirotte I suspect it is the CPU-side deinterlacer (we do…

Is there any hope of hardware transcoding 4K HDR content with PGS subs? Right now I can get the HEVC to H264 in HW, but as soon as I throw on subs I am back to CPU encoding.

Plex Media Server - Transcoder Preview: 1.12.2.4896

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