Server Version#:1.17.0 Player Version#: I was excited to try out the new HW transcoding features (hw decode on nvidia linux and zero-copy support) but the changelog failed to mention that the new ffmpeg requires driver 418.30 or higher. Since I’m still running Debian stretch, the provider driver …

@jishi We have not changed any requirements on our side, but it looks like upstream ffmpeg changes that now require some newer driver code/apis. regardless, we will update the support article and our release notes .

1.17.0 now requires nvidia driver 418.30 or higher?

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CptChaos September 17, 2019, 5:00pm 5

I can’t see if it’s edited in later, but the announcement mentions it: Plex Media Server

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1.17.0 now requires nvidia driver 418.30 or higher?

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