[Feature Request] Add support for AMD's Video Core Next encoding

[rustyscottweber]

Hey. @PLEX… Someone else has already made headway on this… Any way we can get their work checked into the mainline?

Got HW Transcoding to work with libva/vaapi on Ryzen APU (Ryzen 7 4700U)

Hey there, I’ve read a lot of comments stating that Plex HW transcoding can not be made to work with the vaapi APIs exported by AMD APUs with integrated graphics. This is true, at least looking at how Plex sets things up out of the box. Manually copying over the libva drivers for AMD GPUs plus related shared libraries fixed the problem for me. cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/lib/dri/ && \ cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_amdgpu.so.1.* /usr/lib/plex…