Right now the main way to run a plex server is with an Intel CPU that support Quicksync. This results in the best performance and especially price/performance ratio. It would be very nice if plex also supported AMD’s processors with built in graphics for transcoding. As an example, here is the perfo…

I’m also waiting for this to be added to Plex server on Linux

I vote for this too What are you waiting for?

Signed. Let’s get some official support here.

Signed, i want to move to a Ryzen APU… still stuck with my old box due to Quicksync and Plex.

I would like to see a lot of work done around AMD hardware support, not just for APU’s but for dedicated gpu’s as well. I moved Plex from a FreeNAS jail to a docker container on a Ubuntu server sometime ago because I wanted to have more powerful hardware available and experiment with other containe…

Would love to see this added for those of us looking to leverage AMD APUs!

Plex would be much better with AMD supporting, please do.

I got an Asus PN50 with Ryzen 7 4700U, amazing mini pc and I’m really disappointed that no hardware encode is available

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

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kainhome September 20, 2020, 3:54pm 35

+1 Running Plex on servers that have ILO management does not allow us to leverage QuickSync even if the processor has an iGPU.

Support for external AMD GPU (preferably for FreeBSD) is paramount.

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