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…

Hello Plex you there? We are still waiting for something.

This is coming. (I have been personally testing it on my P2000) We have some Windows issues to resolve and then we will be working towards a forum preview. I want to get this into the hands of our users to play with as soon as possible :slight_smile:

if the windows problems can’t or won’t be resolved soon, perhaps a linux only preview… since windows already supports decode and linux doesn’t…

Woot! Always glad to hear from plex that things are still moving forward.

Thank you for chiming in! Been tracking this thread from the early days, so it’s a relief to hear something unofficially official at last. :wink:

Our Transcoder forum preview is live here! [image] Plex Media Server 1.16.7.1597 (Updated) - New Transcoder Preview Plex Pass Betas Hello, forum users! It’s time again for an update to Plex’s transcoding and analysis backend. This is a special forums-only preview release;…

I have the “hack” enabled that was shared in this thread many months ago. Are there any effective differences with this release or was that simply overriding to force using the same new transcoder? If there’s a difference, do I need to remove that for the new build to work properly?

Yes you will want to remove the. “Hack” this gives you updated ffmpeg and offical nvdec as well as GPU scaling of the video.

Great news that finally transcoding on Nvidia will work on Linux! There is any hope that you will support it on AMD too? I have a Linux server with an AMD APU and the only thing stopping me to buy a Plex pass is that I won’t have the hardware transcode feature.

This is just the moment i’m sure quite a few people have been waiting for " Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux" / without having to using the patch. I don’t think it resonated / propagated in communication yet but i’m very very happy. Thank You, Plex Team!!!

Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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Our Transcoder forum preview is live here!

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