When will there be official support for the battlemage GPUs? Unraid 7.1.0 beta1 supports battlemage and Plex detects it in the transcoder menu. It just can’t/won’t use it.

Time to stick a fork in this one as it’s now in GR.

Look at Until then, early Ubuntu 24.10 users may face a lack of out-of-the-box support, but Ubuntu 25.04 should address this next spring, along with other autumn Linux distribution releases.

My god that is a BEEFY NUC. At an old job we shipped shucked NUCs embedded in our products, but they were all single-board mini PCs. I didn’t know they had big boy NUCs too. I’m in the process of a 10GbE upgrade and would consider a machine like that, but they really don’t seem to have come down in…

@doubye They didn’t come down in price. Yes, it is a ‘Big Boy NUC’ but that’s exactly what I wanted. I want a machine to power through whatever I throw at it and this bad boy does it. My NAS will push 20Gbps into the switch so i wanted a machine which can pull on the 10GbE and sustain it. …

Yeah I saw this in another thread. The version of the Intel Media Driver Plex builds and bundles with Plex seems to be Version 24.1.5-3 and the battlemage initial support was added with Version 24.3.4. So we have to run a custom kernel and wait for Plex to update the Intel video driver to a versio…

@Shades228 Can you point me to that info (IMD release version info). I’ll create and assign a ticket to ensure it’s right.

@Shades228 You’re right, my bad. I meant getting it working with any kernel with Plex. The GPU itself certainly works on newer kernels. My best guess is the same, we need updated Intel Media Driver w/ PMS. Though last I heard theres no point in doing that before the major transcoder upgrade. Though…

Speaking off-topic :wink: , that upgrade is very close. There’s one very annoying , existing, bug which he’s working on. It ha------ wi------by 5-----io He almost has it fixed.

“It happy with nearby 5G radio” Plex 5G mind control conspiracy confirmed.

Confirm that Plex Version 1.41.6.9606 hardware transcoding does not work with unRAID 7.1 beta 2 (kernel 6.12.20) Mar 31, 2025 22:25:42.223 [23057865763640] DEBUG - [Req#1777/Transcode] Codecs: testing hevc (decoder) with hwdevice vaapi Mar 31, 2025 22:25:42.223 [23057865763640] DEBUG - [Req#1777/Tr…

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I was reading this thread.

Intel Arc B580 | Proxmox Support Forum

Also seems confirmed here:

Intel Media Driver Update for Plexserver on Linux? - Plex Media Server - Plex Forum

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