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.

See Chuck’s prior post. ICR & IMD still have to be updated. [image] Battlemage Support Hardware As previously stated: FFMPEG must first be updated (6.1 will be forum preview shortly) Intel Compute Runtime must be updated Intel Media Driver (which supports the card) mus…

But FFmpeg is at stable 7.1… Does Plex use a different server?

It was mentioned in the forum preview thread that they wanted a more stable base to use, however the new system would make updating to 7.X a much easier process in the future [image] Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview Plex Media Server With starting from scratch it was more…

[image] Proddy3: It was mentioned in the forum preview thread that they wanted a more stable base to use, however the new system would make updating to 7.X a much easier process in the future I will somewhat disagree with it being ‘much easier’. Given that 7.1 has native Dolby support, we …

Hey I just based that off what you said about future upgrades :sweat_smile: [image] Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview Plex Media Server We selected 6.1 for the stability. At the time we started this project, FFMPEG 7.x was unstable. With the new source code organizat…

[image] Proddy3: It was mentioned in the forum preview thread that they wanted a more stable base to use, however the new system would make updating to 7.X a much easier process in the future I understand what you’re saying.. Upgrading to a newer FFMPEG base WOULD BE easier than what we pr…

[image] ChuckPa: I will somewhat disagree with it being ‘much easier’. Given that 7.1 has native Dolby support, we would be obligated (per our contract with Dolby) to remove all FFMPEG-provided Dolby support and use only what we are licensed for. That’s a fair amount of work and, after strippi…

@squishy I don’t know Chris’s long term plans. The thing to concern ourselves with now is: Completing the FFMPEG forum preview FFMPEG 6.1 going live ICR & IMD upgrades (which gives the Battlemage / other GPU support)

[image] ChuckPa: ICR and IMD updates always break something for the older systems, which will need a custom patch applied Is Chris also the one working on the ICR and IMD update? How old of a system does Plex need to support?

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Proddy3 July 2, 2025, 4:01pm 72

Hey I just based that off what you said about future upgrades

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