# FFMPEG patch to enable Intel Quick Sync

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/ffmpeg-patch-to-enable-intel-quick-sync/69974>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [July 2, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ffmpeg-patch-to-enable-intel-quick-sync/69974 "2014-07-02T12:06:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![mwarren83](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mwarren83/32/10344_2.png) [@mwarren83](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mwarren83)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ffmpeg-patch-to-enable-intel-quick-sync/69974/1 "2014-07-02T12:06:04Z")

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[https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2591](https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2591) (comment 8)

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Its Linux and Windows only due to the Intel SDK requirement but can this patch be merged into the plex encoder? &nbsp;I haven't done any benchmarks but I would assume it would give Intel CPUs a nice bump in transcoding performance.

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![zAo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ce7236/32.png) [@zAo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zAo)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ffmpeg-patch-to-enable-intel-quick-sync/69974/2 "2015-06-17T23:13:21Z")

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Is it possible tot update ffmpeg manually?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ffmpeg-patch-to-enable-intel-quick-sync/69974/3 "2019-12-21T02:24:40Z")

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