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.

@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?

Chris is in charge of all things “Transcoder”. Plex supports all CPUs as supported by Intel Compute Runtime and Intel Media Driver, and all Nvidia GPUs as supported by Nvidia supported GPUs

I’m in the market for a transcoding GPU, has there been any recent updates since July 18th regarding this? Would love to be able to grab a B580.

[image] ForneusBrandt: has there been any recent updates since July 18th regarding this? [image] ChuckPa: 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) The tran…

I will likely be posting a test build sometime in october (tentative timeframe) which includes updated drivers for you guys to start hammering on.

Real nice! I appreciate the swift reply! Might even get Arc B50 Pro that just released, I presume that would be no issue since it’d the same architecture/same drivers or am I jumping the gun with that? Also if I’m running my plex using the official plex docker image on unraid, how do I get the test…

not super basic at all lol. i’ll include the instructions for docker when i post the build but in the meantime they can be found here .

That’s a pretty straight forward step by step imo.. Won’t be an issue unless things break ofc. :laughing: Looking forward to seeing the test build in action!

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The transcoder upgrade is still a forum preview.

You can follow its thread to see progress: Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview

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