@T_Le what gen of intel quicksync are you using? Some older chips still look pretty bad, not because of plex, though. I forget exactly when they started looking better, but I believe it’s around 7th-8th gen+. This a screen shot of 720p 3mbps on rick and morty for me on a 8th gen intel @dan-the-man
@Dentifrag Wow I’m quite jealous of the quality that you are pumping out. I’m using the latest i3-10100.
Snap, same CPU and I get this issue heavily on lower quality videos. I thought I was going mad until I saw this thread. Hopefully the fix doesn’t take too long.
@Claret you have the new alpha build for windows, correct?
@Dentifrag Not yet, I will try it over the next couple of days and hopefully that will be the end of it. Only just found this thread.
@claret you kind of joined in at a good time. Issue was finally fixed (it seems for a good amount of people so far, there are some still having some issues) 2 days ago. If you go up a could of replies there’s a link to the download for the fixed alpha version. Or if you’re not into alpha stuff then wait a bit for an official release
@Dentifrag Yep, so i gave the alpha build a whirl yesterday and yes seems to be much better on playback, didn’t appear to degrade in quality. Great.
However, I have now had 2 failed recordings on the DVR with transcoder errors this morning which can’t be just a coincidence. Hmmm, so gonna reboot the server, and a flick through the logs, to see if it goes away otherwise I am probably gonna have to revert back to the official build and wait it out. Frustrating.
I have an i5-8250u cpu in my Yoga 730. I’ve got the Plex Media Server 1.20.2.3249-085351107 (Windows x86) mentioned in this thread installed. Can someone outline everything I need to do in Plex Media Server (I have Plex Pass) to enable hardware accelerated transcoding using the intel gpu on this laptop? It uses Intel HD Graphics 620. I would really appreciate it.
Done. I don’t know how often I’ll even use transcoding, as all of the files are 720p or 480p .mp4s using 2 channel stereo 128 aac audio. Every now and then an ios device will require transcoding because the Plex client on that device is not set up properly.
@Ridley Do you have an idea when this will make it into the beta build?
Cheers!
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@Ridley or anyone that knows the answer - when will this make it into the beta build? Thanks
Finally it is here: Plex Media Server
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Yeah I just spotted that as well!
I just switched to the Beta channel and checked for this update. Successful update, and early tests still look consistent with the Alpha build that had been previously posted.
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Just loaded the latest beta and the Windows Intel transcoding is a lot better. Been poor for while now. The improvement is substantial and greatly appreciated.
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Out of curiosity, what’s CPU usage supposed to look like when hw transcoding? I see some GPU usage but CPU still spikes to 100% occasionally. Using ASRock J4105.
Depends on the audio track and/or subtitles. An HD lossless to lossy conversion with pgs subtitles would easily peg the CPU.
Mine feels heavier on the cpu then it used to. I notice the fan spinning up quite a bit when a hardware transcode is being performed. I’m sure there was less cpu activity before the update.
I’ve noticed high CPU as well. The “Plex Transcoder.exe” process seems to use around 15-20% CPU per transcode on my i3-8109U NUC, apart from the GPU usage. The transcodes used are standard 8Mbps x246 1080p encode transcoded to 3Mbps 720p with srt subtitles.
Is this the new normal?
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