As Chris stated …
This is holiday PTO time.
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Hi @chris_decker08 any updates on the links?
Why not upgrade the dolby license so that we can take advantage of those features. I image there are probaly alot like mydelf that would pay a little more for the better dolby support.
That’s a nice idea but this would be a legal contract thing which usually is beyond the scope in this forum. And we cannot discuss the details that we don’t know about for sure.
I bet that if it would be the other way around (nothing works until you pay extra, because of no contracts between Plex and the license holders) then some of us would be unhappy, too. 
I wonder if 3rd party player software would be an option (now that there’s an official Plex Server API out) to solve these kind of problems.
But, I don’t want to kidnap this thread. Sorry…
I just want it to transcode Dolby vision on incomparable device I have a mix of devices that Dolby vision and devices that don’t.
Any discussion of Dolby Vision is not related to BattleMage support.
Please stay on topic here.
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Hey - new to this but I just installed a Battlemage card into my Plex server and can’t get HW transcode to work. It appears I need the new beta/experimental version of Plex but all the links provided are giving a cloudflare dns error.
To echo others in this thread - any ETA on an official release or fixing the links so I can use the card? Seems like it’s been broken for a while.
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The folks at Plex only just got back from the holidays, and the major transcoder update is still in beta. It’s likely that that’s the top priority, and then the driver updates needed for BMG support will be next.
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If you read up in the thread,
- The experimental links have expired (they’re done)
- Battlemage support is a new addition coming with the new transcoder
(drivers) - With folks just now back from holiday, it’s actively being finaized for release.
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hi chuck just out of curiosity should we be thinking within the next month or 2 for the open beta for battlemage ?
I don’t want to speak for Chris (and get it wrong..) but most likely under two.
IIRC, He’s waiting for the build system rehosting to be completed
(which it almost is). Once it’s back online, he can get back to cranking out builds and betas.
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thats absolutly fantastic and cheers for the info gives a great idea of when i can start looking at deployment
Just seeing if you are still waiting for the rehosting to be completed.
Yep… Still waiting …
I am watching their progress – like I used to wait for 
.
They are in the final bits. I’m as anxious as everyone else. I’d like to say “Come and get it!”
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I really hope this lands soon because its very important for my setup.
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Unfortunate that the experimental links have expired. I’ve been running the build since it was released on a Pro B50 battlemage card. It works beautifully for my use case where it replaced a GTX 1070.
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The dead links were archived on the Wayback Machine should you find this thread prior to the official release of Battlemage support. I picked up a B50 this weekend to replace a quite noisy Arc A310 and let me just say, pretty much everything I’ve thrown at it the card has just shrugged off. 4K to 720p? Literally not a problem.
Looking forward to the wider release, thanks for the hard work @ChuckPa and the great @chris_decker08 have been putting in to enable our setups.
Would be cool if one day we could just have Plex use the ffmpeg binary provided by the system, though. I understand that it’s wishful thinking, though.
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Plex cannot use the Public domain FFMPEG due to the licenses involved.
What you, as a private citizen, might do corporate entities like Plex cannot do.
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I’m not sure about the legalities of it, but I’m not saying “just ship the latest build,” I more mean being able to go into the settings and switch from the bundled copy of ffmpeg to a path to a local copy of ffmpeg.
I’m positive it wouldn’t be that simple, as I’m ignorant to all that the Plex team has done to their custom version of ffmpeg, but it would be nice in the event that a new piece of hardware comes out, being able to rebuild the binary on demand would be nice.
a) Not that simple.
b) Even if it were, would still violate licenses.
