# Battlemage Support **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** server-linux, server-unraid, hardware\ **Created:** [March 27, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/battlemage-support/910409 "2025-03-27T05:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/battlemage-support/910409/65 "2025-06-28T04:16:46Z")
FFMPEG 6.1 transcoder upgrade is now in forum preview. > [@Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoder-upgrade-forum-preview/924241/1): > > Announcing the Transcoder Upgrade forum preview! Plex’s transcoder is a highly customized version of FFMPEG which has been accumulating bugfixes and features since it was forked back in 2012. With such a large number of differences, upgrading from the upstream repository became increasingly more difficult and took up more and more time. We decided it was time to clear out the bloat and start over, creating a brand new fork from ffmpeg 6.1 and only bringing over features necessary for the funct… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/battlemage-support/910409)._