hey everyone, its been a while! We are finally able to post forum builds again The following build should have support for battlemage as well as address the issues on 10th generation and older devices (thank you @pshanew for discovering this issue).
Thank you @chris_decker08! While I can’t speak to the Battlemage support, I can confirm that this preview does not break HW transcoding on my JasperLake-based N5105. I installed the forum preview and disabled encoding to HEVC (the previous failing case). It was able to transcode to H.264 using hardware-acceleration (and was able to tone map).
If you’d like any logs to ensure you see what you expected, let me know and I’ll post them to our DM thread.
Works great. Running on Ubuntu 24.04.3 VM, kernel 6.17, under Proxmox with an Arc Pro B50 using SRIOV VF device. I stopped testing at 9 4k to 1080p (high) transcodes. So smooth.
Im using the “ plexinc/pms-docker” repo added Jan 30, 2017 not the linuxserver (lscr.io/linuxserver/plex) repo. the one im using says official container. does that make a difference?
So I’ve been running this for over 24 hours, and unlike last time, it hasn’t stopped working randomly. So far so good. I have a B50 on my plex server and it’s running great.
Edit: Nevermind, turns out the bios decided to disable rebar which then resulted in this crash. Works perfectly now.
I just tried it using a B570 and sadly the plex server instantly crashes when it starts transcoding. I’ve checked the debug/verbose logs and they don’t really say anything worth mentioning.
Only this then followed by a transcode job starting and then finally the crash uploader.
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.948 [139950013872952] DEBUG - [Req#55c/Transcode/Req#55d] It took 0.000000 ms to retrieve 165 items.
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.948 [139950013872952] DEBUG - [Req#55c/Transcode] Audio Stream: 8094, Subtitle Stream: 0
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.949 [139950013872952] VERBOSE - [Req#55c/Transcode] It took 0.0 sec to serialize a list with 1 elements.
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.950 [139950013872952] DEBUG - [Req#55c/Transcode] Codecs: testing h264_vaapi (encoder)
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.950 [139950013872952] DEBUG - [Req#55c/Transcode] Codecs: hardware transcoding: testing API vaapi for device '/dev/dri/renderD128' (Intel Battlemage G21 [Arc B570])
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.950 [139950013872952] VERBOSE - [Req#55c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - libva: VA-API version 1.22.0
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.950 [139950013872952] VERBOSE - [Req#55c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - libva: User requested driver 'iHD'
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.950 [139950013872952] VERBOSE - [Req#55c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - libva: Trying to open /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/va-dri-linux-x86_64/iHD_drv_video.so
Feb 16, 2026 22:18:36.951 [139950013872952] VERBOSE - [Req#55c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
The following build should have support for battlemage as well as address the issues on 10th generation and older devices (thank you @pshanew for discovering this issue).