I just upgraded to a 8700k so I can get some more concurrent streams with hardware transcoding. It appears any tracks with DTS-MA or TrueHD tracks won’t hardware transcode - this is for both 4k hevc files and just x264 1080p files. If I select the AC3 track (if present) in the file then it switches…

Hardware transcode doesn't work with DTS-MA or TrueHD

FordGuy61 March 18, 2019, 7:13pm 3

Are you running the beta release? Some of the recent 1.15.x builds had problems with transcoding.

Plex Media Server 1.15.1.710 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

Plex Media Server 1.15.1.791 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel

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