Anyone have been able to HW transcode on an Intel NUC 11 (Iris Xe)?

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Do I just install the beta package? Im on kernel 5.11.37.

I dont use HDR tone mapping, but i want the hw transcoding for general purpose of Remote streaming .

Read something about slow startup, didnt quite understand it, anyone who can elaborate? :slight_smile:

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It can take up to 10 minutes to start at least it did on mine (probably metadata database is too huge and plex beta treat and load them differently ?) and web interface can’t be accessed locally on my side unless logging to plex.tv.
I tested it and confirms that hw transcode now work without crash, the only remaining bug is HDR tone mapping which crash (but somehow works) when triggering transcoding on Tiger Lake.

If you need hw transcode your best bet is try it out, you won’t be disappointed.

I did uninstalled to beta because of slow startup and since it’s beta it’s prone to bug, at least I’m waiting for the tone mapping error fix to test it in all its glory but for now I’m staying on the latest public release, waiting for the thing to be available when fully ready

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Thanks @Capitaine-Iglo

Just so I understand you correctly - what takes 10 minutes to start up? A stream ? Or to start up the server it self?

I want to try it out - but I cant get any details of which system it will run on kernel wise.

Im currently on GNU/Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64 .

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@Morphy
The initial start up of the plex server, but that’s not something that I experience with a 20tb library.
Mine starts up slightly faster as I used to run the plexpass tag instead of the latest tag as docker image.

if I’m not mistaken, the kernel version shouldn’t matter.

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There’s a change to some of the database structure in the latest beta. When starting the server for the 1st time after upgrading, it’ll take some time to process. The duration will depend on (a) the size of your library and (b) the capacity of your CPU

@TeknoJunky had posted about this in the main thread about the transcoder preview:

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Thanks @christophedc0 and @tom80H

Gonna try an upgrade :slight_smile:

Should I enable the beta on web , and then install manually?

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you need to install this preview build manually – this is not the regular beta.

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if you’re running docker:
make sure the image tag is on latest.
I downloaded the preview build to the plex path and then did:

docker exec -it plex 'dpkg -i name_of_preview_build.dpkg'
nano /path/to/plex/version.txt (to adapt the versioning as mentioned in the preview build topic)
docker restart plex
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This comment aged well…

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Thanks all - gonna install ASAP :slight_smile:

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FYI started up ASAP - No waiting time for my server.

HW transcoding works :slight_smile: .

Intel NUC 11 Pro with Samsung Pro 980 NVME. :slight_smile:

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Yeah that timing was pretty brutal…

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Hahaha, yeah pretty unfortunate timing there.

Glad it seems like progress has been made now though :slight_smile:

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I am happy to see the progress, but this issue is only really resolved once HDR tone mapping works as well.

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For me, it seems hdr tone mapping works.
cpu around 20-30% use (there’s also some sonic analysing & preview thumbnails happening) and igpu around 50% rendering and video0 at around 75% for a 4K HDR 10bit 44.6mbps x265 (HEVC) file to 480p

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Running good so far . Havent seen any problems .

Good work :slight_smile:

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Hmm not working 100% . Hw transcoding stops working after a while :confused: . CPU cooking

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No issue here after a whole day of transcoding.
Perhaps something with an older kernel/package that’s causing a problem?

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Is this preview version going to solve the “green artifacts” Intel 11th desktop CPUs are having too? i5 11600k user here.

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I believe that’s the intention