The humble Raspberry Pi has hardware encoding/decoding for H264, via openmax/MMAL - it’s crucial for twitch streaming, etc, and is enough for 1080p. Imagine if plex implemented this (and an official RPI PMS version) - a $30 (well, closer to $100 with all the required bits) plex box capable (?) of si…

rpi not built to transcodes multiple videos, but it’s surely does capable of being a server in feeding Plex clients of movies thru direct play as I used it for portable media server when I’m on the road. And even Plex devs support rpi’s hardware decoding/encoding, probably it can only transcode 1 HD…

with the pi4’s release, it now supports hardware h265 4k decode, along with the hardware h264 encode in previous pis, along with a 3-4x better CPU. time to revisit plex hardware transcoding on these devices? <3

Is there VAAPI support for ARMv8 yet? This will be the gating factor.

given that VAAPI appears to be an intel initiative, that seems unlikley, no? https://01.org/vaapi what about using openmax instead? i’ve no idea if they are equivalent, but openmax seems to support everything.

Emby Server provides hardware acceleration on the Rock64, which is ARMv8. It also will direct play from the HDHomeRun Extend to the Apple TV 4 which Plex doesn’t support. Plex loves to transcode EVERYTHING and it brings ARM devices to their knees making Plex unusable. This is a deal breaker for me. …

+1 for the armv8 rockchip. the RK3399 supports hardware accelerated 4Kp60 decoding and 1080p30 encoding. $ dmesg | grep dev/video [ 8.151696] rockchip-rga ff680000.rga: Registered rockchip-rga as /dev/video0 [ 8.183954] hantro-vpu ff650000.video-codec: registered rockchip,rk3399-vpu-enc as /d…

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