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 rel…

Thanks, OP! Since I am still in limbo waiting for Plex to fix support in Windows, I just bought one of these Ryzen thin clients for $100 (best offer) to test Linux transcoding on. [image] mauimauer: However I have attached a patch in my first post allowing those who want to do so to have insigh…

It seems the latest plex version works with my patches again (HW decoding & transcode) 1.22.0.4163 I’ve pushed a new version to mauimauer/plex:latest

Thank you for this! I’ve got this working on my new rig that I’m building with a Ryzen 2400G, this is my docker-compose config that I’m using: version: “2.1” services: plex: image: mauimauer/plex container_name: plex network_mode: host environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - VERSION=docker …

For those curious, still doesn’t seem to work with HDR tone mapping (having it enabled in settings will force a software transcode, disabling it makes the colours washed out). Tested by applying the patch manually to latest Plex pass version, 1.22.1.4228. This is the first time I’ve been able to g…

Thanks for the docker container, it seems to work really well. I was quite scared about making the leap to docker and it was actually really slick. I did however run into a slight problem, my PC went completely unresponsive, and required restart when certain files were HW transcoded. I suspect my G…

Ran into a weird thing where transcoding stopped working suddenly, and now doesn’t work at all despite restarting the host or the Docker image (HP T640 with the Ryzen R1505g running OMV). Ran apt update and it worked for ~30 seconds then stopped again. I get an s3016 (Media) error which is very qu…

I’ve isolated down the failure scenario: Hardware transcoding works perfectly fine when using the native Plex app or the iOS client. However, when using Safari as the client app, that fails every single time (unless I’m playing Original Quality).

Disabling hardware encoding, thereby using hardware decoding only, seems to fix the videos not playing in Safari error for me.

I finally made this work following your instructions. Thanks a lot [mauimauer]! I have been wanting to get HW transcoding working on my 3200g for ages, but people kept saying it could not be done. However as others have said, it won’t work with HDR tonemapping enabled. Has anyone found a fix for thi…

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

Plex Media Server

mauimauer April 4, 2021, 12:39am 38

Seems the recent versions of docker work again with my original patch and customized version of the linuxserver.io container. I’ll be pushing updates to the container whenever I can verify that a new version of Plex works with my Ryzen 4700U setup.

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

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