Hardware acceleration/hardware transcoding device clarification

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Seeking some clarification as I’m beginning to believe I perhaps have a misunderstanding. I have a new older computer setup as a backup plex server that has both a dedicated gpu and integrated. I have plex pass and so I have hardware acceleration enabled as well I have the dedicated card selected. However I look at the graphics card usage while play back is in direct playback, and transcoding both on network and remote. I only ever see the igpu being used which leads me to think I have a misconception of what is or should be going on.

PMS: 1.41.6.9685-d301f5-511a
OS: Win 11 Pro Build 26100.406
CPU: i5-8400H
iGPU: Intel UHD 630
NVidia MX130
Nvidia Control Panel: ver 553.46
Fresh install all showing up to date

I am sure there is some more information I can give but unsure what to provide other. Any clarification of this would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if more information is needed. Thank you community.

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Everything appears to be working ideally for your set-up.

According to this Nvidia page your GPU does not support transcoding - or at least it doesn’t use the modern Nvenc engine.

Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix | NVIDIA Developer

You’re Intel iGPU appears to be what Plex had found and according to your description is working as expected - it’s handling your transcoding.

Your Intel GPU has great codec support - for Plex. (See below)

But that’s just my 2 cents - someone could likely give you a more indepth description and diagnosis.

Intel Article Link Encode and Decode Capabilities for 7th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Newer

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Thank you, I figured the answer would be simple and I just didn’t know the correct search criteria. As well it lets me know more information about how my aging main rig also lines up… And oof :joy:

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