Green video when using hardware transcoding from some titles

Server Version#: 1.18.2.2058
Player Version#: Plex Web 4.16.2, Plex for Android 7.25.1.14216 and other which I’m unable to verify at the moment.
Server Hardware: Intel NUC8i7BEH
Server OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 LTS

I’ve ripped a Dutch (BE) TV Series which contains 10 seasons. From season 7 onwards all episodes play green video when using hardware transcoding. Sound plays normal.
When I disable hardware transcoding the episode plays fine.

In a previous version of PMS I was able to see a bit of picture coming through as it was more of a green checkerboard then. I think it was version 1.18.0.1944. That was on a Synology DS1019+. I’ve since migrated to a NUC.

Video Info:

  • Codec MPEG2VIDEO
  • Bitrate 5507 kbps
  • Taal English
  • Anamorphic true
  • Bit Depth 8
  • Chroma Location left
  • Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
  • Color Primaries bt470bg
  • Color Range tv
  • Color Space bt470bg
  • Color Trc bt470bg
  • Frame Rate 25 fps
  • Height 576
  • Niveau 8
  • Pixel Aspect Ratio 64:45
  • Profile main
  • Ref Frames 1
  • Scan Type interlaced
  • Width 720
  • Display Title 480i (MPEG2VIDEO)

The bolded lines are only present in episodes starting from season 7.

When I play the file directly in VLC on Windows everything seems to be normal.
When I play it in Windows Media Player, the aspect ratio is not right as it stretches over my entire ultrawide monitor.


Plex Media Server Logs_2019-12-05_12-14-44.zip (5.7 MB)

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