GPU Utilization on Universal PMS Build for Mac M1

[dellis1987]

Server Version#: 1.26.2.5797
Player Version#: 4.76.1
I’m testing out the M1 version and it works wonderfully, but the transcoding service seems to use the CPU and not the GPU. The CPU is around 30-40% and the GPU % sits at 0% in activity monitor. Just wondering if that’s working as designed. Playback settings shows hw transcoding. What might I be missing to utilize the GPU?

[richardap1]

I believe that is expected. The M1 has dedicated HW for transcode, it doesn’t use the GPU as such, so not reported. An amount of CPU usage will always occur, especially as you are also transcoding audio, which is always done on the CPU.

[dellis1987]

Thanks! For some reason I was expecting the CPU usage to remain low and the GPU to kick in. I don’t think I’ve ever watched it on my other machine so not sure if the GPU ever kicked in there either.