Hardware support for Intel Arc/Alchemist GPUs being explored?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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I posted what we found over in the Intel forums. Ill mess with it a bit more but I will most likely return it and wait and see when the Pro A40 is released.

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Well, letā€™s see what Intel comments there. Maybe you can post a link to that forum thread?

I also did some further investigation regarding missing DXVA2 support and on a german online pc magazine I found a post stating no native Directx9 support with Intel ARC gpus. (Intel Arc: DirectX 9 wird nur noch Ć¼ber Umwege unterstĆ¼tzt - ComputerBase)
The problem is DXVA2 is based on Directx9. With this in mind, I guess dxva2 will never be supported on ARC and also not on their PRO workstation line.

Maybe plex can change dxva2 to d3d11va in the future, albeit breaking Windows 7 support with this change. (I guess itā€™s not that easy to switch)

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This article states all DX9 commands are sent to to a emulation layer for DX12 to translate. This applies to their 12th Gen iGPUs as well.

Are their issues with Intel 12th Gen CPUs with PLEX?

I will update with links on the Intel forums.

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As I understand it, yes plex has issues with the 12th gen iGPU.

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I think it just has problems with the drivers as some, which are needed, are not natively installed. I have a 12th gen iGPU and I somehow miraculously managed to work it out, so itā€™s nice and smooth now ā€“ with HW HDR tone mapping, with burnt in subtitles,ā€¦

I manually installed and updated all the drivers and its dependencies. I was really surprised that Ubuntu does not have a package needed for Intel HW encoding (not beignet, although I also installed that, even though not used anymore).

I will come back with the package name when get to my server.

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Starting with PMS 1.29.1, Plex Media Server Linux builds include the necessary Intel Compute Runtime libraries. It is no longer necessary to install them separately.

This applies only to Linux. Not to other platforms.

Additional Info: PMS 1.29.1 HW Tonemapping Testing, Questions , and Answers

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