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.

Thank you but downgrading kernel did not help (6.17 to 6.14). Which version of GPU drivers are you running? Hangs seem to correlate with load and concurrency. Might not be HDR per se - but the complexity and weight the task adds to overall load.

Hello all, I’m struggling to get hardware encoding running. I have installed the beta version of Plex, and I have the latest version of Unraid (7.2.4). I have /dev/dri in extra parameters on the container (official Plex Docker). I have the Intel GPU_Top driver. And in plex I have the GPU selected in…

You’re “direct streaming” the video there, it won’t show hardware transcoding when doing that. Try intentionally changing the stream to like 720p so it forces plex to transcode the video. Then see if it shows (hw).

That’s exactly what it is lol. Thanks so much

Anyone in the know here - at what point can I switch back to the normal beta releases? (I.E when will the battlemage support be merged into the beta?)

When you see it in the release notes. [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.43.0.10492 is now available to everyone. NOTE: There has been a significant overhaul of the build and deploy systems. We have tested as best we could but some is…

Yeah I’m keen on this two I asked early January and there was a comment to expect for this month at the latest

Anyone who can assist me maybe ? :slight_smile:

Just saw this on the latest beta release- “Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178)”. I’ll be trying it out later! :slight_smile:

Looks like the time has come [image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10540 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: A new NFO metadata agent for Movie and TV Show libraries. (Transcoding) Add support for …

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FordGuy61 March 10, 2026, 4:15pm 279

When you see it in the release notes.

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