Any official statement about what REALLY is the current state about CPU and GPU combinations supported at the moment and which ones are planned for the future would be a great deal here…
guys you are loosing customers… not the way you want to do business…
I installed WX2100 on my HP Proliant Microserver Gen10, but no video output after I powered on.
Anything I missed?
AMD hardware transcoding support would be nice Plex.
Almost 2022 and still no development.
It would be nice to see some support. This thread has only been open for 3.5+ years…
I’ve been using VideoProc on our 2700X for some time. Before it was even called VideoProc.
HW acceleration conversion works great.
It just makes absolutely no sense.
I thought it was supported, but only on Windows?
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You can tick a checkbox but it does nothing useful.
Damn. I snagged a 6700 XT and was hoping it’d work but I have found 0 indication AMD GPUs will function as intended. I’ll likely stick with my GTX 1080 I suppose.
Vote for official AMD GPU support. Especially with HEVC videos HWAcell decode is a game changer. Current FFmpeg versions support decode and encode (x264 and x265) so I can’t explain why Plex Inc. doesn’t officially support AMD GPU when most of the work has already been done.
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Is there a poll open for this? Owning a AMD Ryzen 5 3400G I would vote for this for sure.
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I understand that it is not officially supported but I just need to ask in order for clarification. Am I to understand that AMF is not officially supported by plex but it DOES work? I keep seeing mixed information. For instance… it works if you are running a Plex server on a windows machine but not Linux? Or does it simply not work at all? I was looking at a 5700G which would be a great thing to get if plex worked with it but pointless if it does not. Can someone summarize the current status of AMF support for plex?
This GPU “scarcity” issue needs to end sooner or later doesn’t it? In a normal economy I would be able to buy a 1060 for $100 on ebay by now. LOL.
AMD GPU’s are fully supported on Windows and if you follow the link above by mauimauer you can get Plex to work on Linux.
I see. I’ve been reading it over and it seems like it is a patched version of plex in a docker container? So there is no official support (ie: plex.tv pkgs) do not support this? Kind of odd since it seems to have ffmpeg support. I guess it is what it is. I will just get a pascal based nvidia and wait a few more variants of Covid for gpu prices to return to a sanity.
The docker automates driver and config file edits to simplify usage on Linux. They are working on the update and with Nvidia going with VA-API on Linux I have my fingers crossed for sometime this year for a consolidated api supporting the 3 major vendors.
Plex will not use my AMD GPU and never has.
Windows 10 and RX580x
I guess we both need to clarify. For me, it will use the GPU for everything but HDR tone mapping.
My comment was in reference to the thread title. No need to clarify.
There’s an offical support article: Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming | Plex Support
***Note: Our hardware-transcoding system has technical support for many dedicated AMD graphics cards, but we haven’t done official, full testing on those. Support for AMD GPUs is provided “as is” and your mileage may vary. It is recommended that you use Intel Quick Sync Video or a dedicated NVIDIA GPU.
“technical support” means that the 3rd party component ffmpeg they use is cabable of hw accelerated decode/encode with many older and actually all newer AMD GPUs.
And indeed some videos will be transcoded by AMD GPUs while other videos will not.
And that’s the diffrence between “technicaly supported” and “offically supported”. The latter one ensures that those problems are handled by Plex Inc. and thats currently not the case
Most of us have read the support article and yet most of us recognise that Plex does not use the GPU for transcoding but the CPU.
I have a relatively ‘new’ AMD GPU and Plex does not use it for transcoding.
Videoproc does and I use it daily.
Hardware acceleration is also flakey.
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