Clarification on Hardware Acceleration with AMD APUs

[FordGuy61]

You’ll need to add a Nvidia GPU or switch to an Intel CPU with Quick Sync Video

Hardware Transcoding with AMD Cards?

Until there exists AMD support in the VA-API, there won’t be AMD support. AMD uses MESA making this AMD GPU support very unlikely in the immediate future. Intel QSV and nVidia are the two supported forms at this time.

PMS now supports NVDEC in addition to NVENC.

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 is available in the Beta update channel NEW: (Transcoder) Update to current upstream ffmpeg (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Linux with Intel 9th-gen processors (Transcoder) Support for VC-1 hardware decoding on supported platforms (Transcoder) Support for hardware decoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding of interlace…

Support document for Hardware Accelerated Streaming (not yet updated with NVDEC info)
https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/