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…

It looks like ffmpeg supports AMD’s API. Pretty sure I saw that plex uses ffmpeg for encoding. I am not sure if the “AMF” support includes support for “Video Core Next” though, or if it is just the VCE support. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro

I’m also interested in this… My main Plex server has an AMD A10 APU.

AMD has been killing it with Ryzen. Still happy with my Kaby Lake processor, but if I were to build right now I’d get the new Ryzen APUs for sure.

I like Plex, but my NAS couldnt handle the 4k. I moved to Emby ,which supports both NVIDIA and AMD and im using the 2200G on my PC and its working great. With CES around the corner and new GPUS, it be awesome if i could move back to Plex using the new AMD GPUS .

Does anyone know why VAAPI works with Intel, but Mesa’s radeonsi vaapi implementation doesn’t work with Plex?

I have seen some say VCN is supported. Since the new Ryzen 5 3400G is now out, I was thinking of building a little “inexpensive” system to see if it will do hardware transcoding.

VCN is definitely supported. I’ve been using it since 2400g was released. That said it was actually a downgrade from UHD630. I haven’t seen anything in the way of updates to do VCN for 3400g. I suspect its just a node improvement and nothing more.

So you think the transcoding quality is inferior to QSV?

Finally got to do some stress testing today. My new 3400G setup could only reliably transcode four 1080p to 720p streams before it became unstable. I’m not sure if it was the VCN processor or my 2GB of allocated shared video RAM. GPUz was reporting both were maxed out. The motherboard I have only…

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

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pyroclast June 8, 2019, 4:05pm 6

I appears the AMD GPU related hardware acceleration requests are redirected here, at least for linux servers (AMDGPU transcoding?). My understanding, this feature is for the AMD CPU processor core in general. If linux AMD GPU support comes with it, fantastic! But mods please clarify if it will support linux AMD GPU processing as this is specific to the Video Core Next support. Regardless, you have my vote.

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

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