Hi there, I’m new to Plex and this is my first post. What I’m requesting is : Hardware Accelerated Decode with Nvidia Cards for Linux. I think this feature will be super helpful to cut down the CPU overhead when transcoding videos on a Linux server. I’m using plex server with Ubuntu(18.04 beta) fo…

I get that, I’m using the hack/work around so the h.265 movie was transcoded down to h264. And it works… it just needs to be buffered a bit more. Again, like I said I get that we are utilizing a hack and some of these issues still need to be cleaned up. It was more of a test to see if it works, a…

Completely understand, just want people who may drop in and not read the whole thread to understand what is Plex ‘current state” vs hack enhancement.

Do you have any information you could share regarding any time scale for the FFMPEG update? Will it be on a different Plex release than 1.15? We’re all super excited over this! :grinning:

If it’s not clear by now, they’re not going to tell us their plans. I’d encourage patience as we let the awesome plex team do their things.

Direct play/ Direct streaming should still work. Plex only calls their transcoder when needed. The transcoder doesnt decide that.

[PNG] Direct Streams are not showing up on the gpu processes. Only the 4 video transcodes are.

Ok I must have something else going on. Thanks!

Any ideas of how to pass the “-hwaccel nvdec” on Windows?

Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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MwC_Trexx February 8, 2019, 3:10am 226

Just an FYI - Plex currently does not have support for HEVC HW transcoding (h.265), only h.264.

As @ChuckPA has mentioned, many of these issues will get cleaned up when FFMPEG is updated.

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