Ive been trying the support forum, reddit, google… well almost everything i could think of. But i just cant find anyone that can (or will) answer my question… or only found really outdated posts/pages. So i guess ill just try one more time here. (Dont know why its so hard for the plex team to have…

@BigWheel Hi, thanks for reaching out! I’ve already seen and read that page. And if I’m not blind or missing something, that page doesn’t say anything about amd not being supported. The only thing I can find is this; “If your Windows computer also has a dedicated graphics card, such as an NVIDI…

@BigWheel said: You cannot use AMD. We do not support that. Unless something was changed in the last month that I’m not aware of, AMD HW-transcoding works just fine. Here is a an example, 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray rip transcoded to 1080p with my Ryzen 5 2400G (newest Vega drivers at the time manually…

@Wiidesire Haha feels great that the staff at Plex dont even know what they are talking about. Makes me understand why the software has so much issues/bugs. :slight_smile: So which AMD GPU do you recommend for me? The latest and greatest or would some older model work just fine for a couple of 4K …

@mjewl said: @Wiidesire So the question still stands, can i use AMD GPU (PCI-e), NOT CPU graphics, for HW-transcoding? There is no functional difference between the Vega graphics of the APU and a standalone Vega graphics card. AMD GPUs with UVD/VCE (basically everything released since 2012) ar…

@Wiidesire ok, I’ll try amd if I’m not satisfied with the quadro p2000.

Hi How many simultaneous transcoded streams can the 2400g manage? I’m torn between a 2200G or Intel G5400 system for a Windows Plex box Thanks

@Methanoid It entirely depends on Codec, Bitrate, Color depth etc. but I’d say roughly 1x 2160p, 2x 1080p or 3x 720p simultaneous transcodes to a lower resolution.

If you have both an AMD APU and an Nvidia GPU, which one would you rather have transcode for quality reasons? Contrast this to a choice between QSV and NVEnc, and you’d probably choose QSV for a single transcode.

Your CPU has an extremely low Passmark score. I’ve seen that higher the passmark score (above 15K), the smoother the experience. I have an i7-7700k CPU with a 12K passmark score, same setup as you (roku wired), and no issues. You should pop in an NVIDIA Quadro card so you can offload ALL transcodin…

AMD for HW-transcoding, or Intel/Nvidia only?

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BigWheel May 4, 2018, 10:17pm 2

You cannot use AMD. We do not support that.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/

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