Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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Why can't I do hardware-accelerated _decoding_ (cuvid) with nVidia hardware?

It is literally stock ffmpeg (confirmed by another plex team member) Sorry if there’s been a miscommunication here, but this is inaccurate. Plex Transcoder contains a number of changes from upstream ffmpeg to handle our particular use-cases. We send a lot of patches upstream, but some features are either specific to Plex, or wouldn’t work generally enough with the current infrastructure (so they have to be implemented in more specific ways that won’t be accepted upstream until the infrastruct…