Nice. Keep us up to date how u get on. 
What hardware is being used for 4kK HEVC HW transcoding? I thought that wasnât really an option yet⊠Coffeelake?
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
What hardware is being used for 4kK HEVC HW transcoding? I thought that wasnât really an option yet⊠Coffeelake?
Kabylake is fine.
@HitsVille said:
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
What hardware is being used for 4kK HEVC HW transcoding? I thought that wasnât really an option yet⊠Coffeelake?Kabylake is fine.
Thanks, I have skylake and Amd Ryzen 1700x , but coffeelake may be in my future. I thought remembered reading through the forums recently that HW transcoding wasnât enable for Kaby/Coffelake in Plex for H265 even though the processors were capable of it. 4K remuxes have been causing lots of issues for my remote users (including me, when remote). However, they play great for me locally on my ShieldTV and look amazing. 
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
@HitsVille said:
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
What hardware is being used for 4kK HEVC HW transcoding? I thought that wasnât really an option yet⊠Coffeelake?Kabylake is fine.
Thanks, I have skylake and Amd Ryzen 1700x , but coffeelake may be in my future. I thought remembered reading through the forums recently that HW transcoding wasnât enable for Kaby/Coffelake in Plex for H265 even though the processors were capable of it. 4K remuxes have been causing lots of issues for my remote users (including me, when remote). However, they play great for me locally on my ShieldTV and look amazing.
HW transcoding works very well with my kaby lake. There were issues with 10bit HEVC files, but I believe thatâs been fixed a few weeks ago.
Why donât you just use the Plex optimizer to create 1080p versions of your files? Set it to, say, 8Mbps and set your max remote streaming bitrate to 10Mbps. It wonât allow to stream the 4K file without transcoding so the streaming brain should send the optimized one⊠or so I was told.
@KarlDag said:
Why donât you just use the Plex optimizer to create 1080p versions of your files? Set it to, say, 8Mbps and set your max remote streaming bitrate to 10Mbps. It wonât allow to stream the 4K file without transcoding so the streaming brain should send the optimized one⊠or so I was told.
Iâd rather only keep one set of files if possible, the 4K full remuxes eat a lot of space as is⊠Iâm sort of doing that now, 2 sets of files, but not using the Optomizer (sickbeard_mp4_automator), but I would prefer not too⊠I donât have the funds at the moment to make a hardware upgrade solve itâŠ
@KarlDag said:
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
@HitsVille said:
@RandomNinjaAtk02 said:
What hardware is being used for 4kK HEVC HW transcoding? I thought that wasnât really an option yet⊠Coffeelake?Kabylake is fine.
Thanks, I have skylake and Amd Ryzen 1700x , but coffeelake may be in my future. I thought remembered reading through the forums recently that HW transcoding wasnât enable for Kaby/Coffelake in Plex for H265 even though the processors were capable of it. 4K remuxes have been causing lots of issues for my remote users (including me, when remote). However, they play great for me locally on my ShieldTV and look amazing.
HW transcoding works very well with my kaby lake. There were issues with 10bit HEVC files, but I believe thatâs been fixed a few weeks ago.
Why donât you just use the Plex optimizer to create 1080p versions of your files? Set it to, say, 8Mbps and set your max remote streaming bitrate to 10Mbps. It wonât allow to stream the 4K file without transcoding so the streaming brain should send the optimized one⊠or so I was told.
I was told that there will be 2 files listed when you goto play a file and that the end user would still have to select the correct one otherwise it will play the full sized file by default possibly. Only way around this was to make a separate entire share of optimized content and only have remote users use that optimized share.
Way to much effort and space, transcoding works great for me 
@HitsVille said:
Yes you can. All the info is the plexpy section but I had no issues
This will be my project for tonight! Iâve been fighting with the mapped drives to my Synology not reconnecting automatically after a rebootâŠalways a red x until I click on it. Worked fine until I replaced the Mobo and CPU when I upgraded to 8th gen⊠worked perfectly on the previous hardware no problem. Been pulling my hair out over this issue.
because of many reasons
1- its possible they donât have enough storage capacity
2- because to create 1080p of 4k will take long time , for example I own 5TB~ 4K/4K HDR if I will try to convert them into 1080p will take me forever
3- because some ppl have limited data qouta and others donât for example in my home country my friends have 200GB monthly while i donât because i am in another area so they donât want to consume a lot of it.
many more reasons but these 3 apply to me and I suffer what to do , am trying to find a good hardware to do that.
I know right now we donât have HDR to SDR tone maping but
Ios devices the beta update seems promising also I have like 4TB 4K not HDR so I need to find a way to transcode them so far i have issues and its more like bugs or settings.
my system should be capable to handle 4K to 1080p
8700k
+enabled the igpu and disabled it
GTX 1080 Ti
so my cpu go to 100% and the movie donât even start playing for ever
if your server is not on windows, then only gpu ENCODING is supported.
that means that the 4k DECODE is done by the cpu (which may be why your cpu goes to 100%)
this may or may not help @ Plex, 4k, transcoding, and you - aka the rules of 4k - a FAQ
