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.

[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!

That is the best news! I bought a b450 for transcoding without knowing it wouldn’t work and it sits around since january. Really hyped to test this out!

Same :face_with_peeking_eye: I’m really looking forward to testing transcoding with the B580. I currently only have it running in Jellyfin, but due to the lack of apps, I need it in Plex.

[image] ChuckPa: Completing the FFMPEG forum preview FFMPEG 6.1 going live ICR & IMD upgrades (which gives the Battlemage / other GPU support) Hey Chris, out of curiosity, any updates regarding battlemage support? :innocent: :folded_hands:

I will be posting a forum preview with it probobly later this month once ive addressed some regressions in ffmpeg 6 that were discobered when it hit beta last week.

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crodrig27 September 5, 2025, 11:50pm 85

I’m pretty eager to test this out. I bought a new B580 solely for transcoding before I saw this thread. Oops

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