The current Plex Transcoder seems to be based on FFMPEG 2.5 which doesn’t support hardware accelerated decoding for nVidia GPUs on Linux systems. (as described here ) FFMPEG >=3.3 however can make use of accelerated encoding and decoding for nVidia GPUs: developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg So it would be …

[Feature Request] Upgrade FFMPEG base for extended hardware de/encoding support under Linux

tom80H Archived July 4, 2021, 4:24pm 7

2021 clean-up: implemented (AMD support → dedicated suggestion)

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