# Hardware accelerated transcodes fail with nvidia driver version \>535 **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux, server-docker\ **Created:** [August 16, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-accelerated-transcodes-fail-with-nvidia-driver-version-535/929403 "2025-08-16T12:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-accelerated-transcodes-fail-with-nvidia-driver-version-535/929403/2 "2025-08-16T13:08:41Z")
I’d be curious to know if you see any difference with the transcoder forum preview version of PMS: > [@Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview](https://forums.plex.tv/t/transcoder-upgrade-forum-preview/924241): > > Announcing the Transcoder Upgrade forum preview! Plex’s transcoder is a highly customized version of FFMPEG which has been accumulating bugfixes and features since it was forked back in 2012. With such a large number of differences, upgrading from the upstream repository became increasingly more difficult and took up more and more time. We decided it was time to clear out the bloat and start over, creating a brand new fork from ffmpeg 6.1 and only bringing over features necessary for the funct… Part of the preview is an upgrade to the version of FFMPEG on which the Plex transcoder is based (to 6.1). Whatever the case, you’ll likely need to provide complete [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) (debug enabled, but not verbose) to receive any real help. Snippets are rarely sufficient to aid in diagnosis as they simply don’t provide enough context. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-accelerated-transcodes-fail-with-nvidia-driver-version-535/929403)._