Hardware transcoding for Raspberry Pi 4 plex media server

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I use RPi4 8GB Raspbian, running plex in a container. Simple transcode works pretty well,temperature tamed by a simple fan blowing on a heatsink.
Would be good to see it boosted by hardware transocing.
So, +1

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One more vote to support RPI 4 HW decode/encode.

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Any updates on this? Would love to see this feature!

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Iā€™m curious to hear any feedback from the Plex folks about how viable this is. I tried downloading the version of FFMPEG that Plex publishes and compiled it with the options required for hardware acceleration on the Pi and the build was successful. I can manually run ffmpeg but of course I canā€™t integrate it into Plex itself because it doesnā€™t pass the correct arguments on the command line.

But itā€™s a positive sign that it builds as-is. In theory all weā€™d need is some platform detection and extra command line flags within Plex itself, I think?

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+1 to support RPI 4 HW decode/encode feature.

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Waiting for it

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+1 to support RPI 4 HW

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+1 to support hardware decoding on the Pi 4.

Iā€™m a Plex Pass user with 2x Pi 4s and had assumed it would be enabled reasonably soon after the Pi4 was releasedā€¦ almost 18 months ago. It seems like such a missed opportunity.

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Would also like to see HW transcoding on arm devices. I use a RockPro64 4GB with OMV which works really well on my fiber setup so transcoding is not really activated but every once in a while a scenario arises that a transcode is required.

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One more vote :wink:

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Would love to see hw transcoding work on rpi4

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Hey fellow Plex users,

I have been following this thread and another one on the same subject for a few months now. Since some clients do not always support direct play, I am having huge CPU load issues because the hardware transcoding is not available on RPI 4. For the developers or the moderators that may read this, yes I know that it is hard to push such a feature without knowing exactly how much ROI you can expect, which may be important because of the ARM Licence, but I am still expecting this from Plex.

To the others, did anyone have any luck with any other software like Emby, Jellyfin, or something else ? I really donā€™t care if itā€™s complex to setup, I can do it. I just need something that when installed correctly, will work correctly. Even with less cool features, but metadata scrapping like Plex does would be a huge plus too.

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Iā€™m also waiting for HW Transcoding support on pi4.

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+1 from me too.

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+1 dito ā€¦ really need it.

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+1 I would for sure be rocking Pi 4 PMS if I had hardware transcoding support. This is something I expect as a paying customer of Plex pass, especially for such a popular and widely supported device as a Raspberry Pi 4.

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+1 would be really great!

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+1 here

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+1 here

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+1 Plex Pass User

Would appreciate its implementation; otherwise Pi 4B+ PMS is flawless

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