Thanks for the update will be monitoring this as I just managed to grab a B580 at MSRP from Best Buy.
Just checking/summarizing… a new kernel is required for Linux (including unRAID implementation, where 7.1 beta has support, which also officially supports iGPU in Arrow Lake / Core Ultra CPU’s for Plex transcoding).
However, Plex and the Docker version of Plex currently implements Version 24.1.5-3 if the Intel Media Driver (which supports iGPU for Arrow Lake / Core Ultra Gen15 processors), but the Intel Arc B-Series “battlemage” initial support was added with Version 24.3.4… so Plex requires a later driver to be implemented for B580 to be recognized at an app level for transcoding and encoding (the latest experimental Plex H265 output feature for optimizing output streams as H265 instead of always H264).
Understandably this takes lots of engineering effort, however if prioritizing the Intel Media Driver versus the FFMPEG 6.1 requirement for AV1… I’d say the cards need to be supported at a fundamental level first so if a first pick needed to be chosen the driver might make the most sense first.
That way the community gets some progress on addressing any fundamental B580 driver recognition and transcoding issues first, before tackling new AV1 content (ie: likely less people will want AV1 support than battlemage general support specifically for Plex… but I could be wrong).
Let me know if I’m understanding that correctly - as I am not sure the unRAID community has this fully straight just yet and are thinking battlemage will be supported just with the new kernel on unRAID 7.1.
