[AMD finally has good stream quality] EposVox just posted an exciting video discussing the subject of AMD’s video encoders in their brand new RX 9000 series GPU’s. Plex has never really supported AMD GPU’s for hardware transcoding in PMS. Thanks to streaming platforms popularizing the u…

[image] FordGuy61: Supporting AMD GPUs could also make AMD based NUCs a better option for running Plex Media Server. RDNA 2 and 3/3.5 aren’t very strong in encoding… From what I’ve been reading, it will be at least another 2 years (2027 at the earliest) before even RDNA, and its media engine …

Just put in a GIGABYTE Aorus 9070 XT in my Plex server. As I’ve been running my server without a GPU for about 6 months now after I sold my 4090. Not sure how to read this but I only have one Hardware transcode (hw) showing on the bottom portion of the stream but not on the top. So it’s still using …

[image] JasonsPlex: Not sure how to read this but I only have one Hardware transcode (hw) showing on the bottom portion of the stream but not on the top. I’m not sure what you mean by this. Where are you looking? What page, what app/browser? Server? Player? The screen capture from your phon…

[image] jfreiman: What I am curious about is that it’s transcoding to H264 and not HEVC/x265 is interesting… Transcoding to HEVC is not supported with AMD GPUs.

Wow, I was testing the pre-release on both my Ryzen 7000 APU and Intel A380 and I was sure that both transcoded using x265. I just tried a quick test using my APU to my phone and sure enough, it transcoded using H264. :confused: I’ll have to go back and check the forum and my playback history. T…

[image] HEVC Encoding (Experimental) Public Release Announcements We are happy to announce a public version of the new HEVC transcoder. Note this is still considered experimental. Thank you to all the users that helped test this while in preview allowing us to feel more co…

This is just the Windows Server dashboard for Plex. This is live TV with an HD home run cable card so it’s always been MPEG2 to h264:)

Hi! The 1080i is mpeg-2( hdhomerun cable card source). Is that most likely why the AMD GPU is not doing the hardware transcoding on that part? I know it’s not supported just asking your opinion:)

[image] JasonsPlex: The 1080i is mpeg-2( hdhomerun cable card source). Is that most likely why the AMD GPU is not doing the hardware transcoding on that part? That’s a good guess. But unknown whether it is a limitation of the GPU itself or how Plex currently implements support for AMD GPUs.

[image] JasonsPlex: Not sure how to read this but I only have one Hardware transcode (hw) showing on the bottom portion of the stream but not on the top. It means that the decoding is done by the CPU, and only the encoding by the GPU. i.e. only one half of the transcoding workload is done wi…

AMD RX 9000 encoders improved, Time for Plex adoption?

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AMD RX 9000 encoders improved, Time for Plex adoption?

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