Hardware transcoding for Raspberry Pi 4 plex media server

+1 Plex Pass User

Please consider this feature as important! Not everybody can afford the space, loudness or price of a fully featured NAS and therefore the RPI4B is the perfect media server / PMS.

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Another +1, please!

yes please :slight_smile:
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please!!!
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+1 please

+1 here. A Raspberry Pi uses a fraction of the power of a typical server and as it’s running 24x7, so using a Pi is an obvious choice for Plex. Just a pity they don’t fully exploit the Pi’s capabilities.

Plex needs to go green :slight_smile:

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Would love to see this happening for RPi4

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I use direct play when I’m at home, and I avoid using my Plex server when I’m away because I usually don’t have the cellular bandwidth to do direct play and the Pi can’t usually handle the transcode.

The Raspberry Pi is, by a wide margin, the most popular single board computer and an obvious choice for a low cost Plex server. Except for that one big weakness: encoding!

Hardware encoding on the Pi 4 would be huge for me.

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I’ve used Plex for years, either on my mac or a Pi, I’ve always just used media that it can handle.

If you were to support hardware transcoding on a Pi4, I would hands down buy a plex pass. I know several other people in exactly the same boat. I will encourage them to come to this thread too.

I simply can’t afford or warrant a full blown NAS, a Pi is such an affordable little machine, I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t add support.

+1 please

Another +1, please!

+1 me too!

+1 here

+1 would love to see this!

+1 here as well

+1 ! I’m using Jellyfin because it supports this feature but I’ll come back on Plex as soon as it will support raspberry pi hardware transcoding !

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+1 here, I’ve been using pi4 since January 2020 for plex and I have a lot of HEVC content, I will buy Plex pass immediately if they support this!

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This feature would actually justify the purchase of a plex pass for me.

+1 here

I’m also in favor of this motion.
Would buy lifetime Flex Pass.