For huge libraries, the current method of generating thumbnails takes forever. As Plex Transcoder is already capable of using hardware decoding, shouldn’t it be possible to use QuickSync and the like to decode the video for the thumbnail generation? Or is this already possible and I just overlooked …

Hardware acceleration for video preview thumbnails?

cayars March 6, 2018, 3:13pm 3

Plex doesn’t currently use HW/Quicksync for anything but real-time encoding. It’s not used for sync, optimize or anything else.

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