Using windows desktop player in a Lenovo laptop with a 4K LCD screen and using Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 adapter on Win 10. I cannot get descent frame rate at 4k native desktop screen resolution, (even tried 2K), have to change desktop to 1080 resolution to get good video playback frame rate. And t…

Play with the “Playback Quality” selector in the settings.

From my testing, when playing standard H264 1080p video on the Windows Plex app, my GPU and CPU (i5-1135G7 with Intel Iris Xe) utilization shoot up to around 30%-35%. Playing 4K HEVC video maxes out the GPU and the video stutters. Toggling client side hardware acceleration off and on doesn’t change …

Your conclusion is incorrect. The Web app supports limited codecs so the Server is doing the hard work of transcoding 4K HEVC to 1080 H264. The more capable Plex for Windows is direct play/stream so it handles the decode and scale of 4k to 1080. Why it matters, if you had a server that couldn’t d…

I can’t find the mpv.conf file only a mpv.conf.md file. Do I have to make a new one and where should it go?

Sorry, maybe mentioning the 4K example made things more complicated. All my examples ware Direct Play, none ware transcoded. Anyway, I’ve done some more testing. By coincidence the TV show I was using to test was encoded in Hi10P. For some reason playing this media doesn’t register as hardware deco…

Desktop player not using hardware decoding

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gbooker02 August 15, 2022, 2:44pm 3

With a UHD Graphics 620 is a very low power GPU. See this other thread with suggestions that worked for that user: New plex HTPC app, 4k video jerky/unwatchable - #6 by gbooker02

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Desktop player not using hardware decoding

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