Hardware transcoding on new Ryzen CPU

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I’m running a PMS on Ubuntu 20.4 on a new computer I built with Ryzen 5 3600X CPU and a NVidia GTX 1650 Super GPU. It works very well, apart from having problems with HW transcoding…

The GPU has 4 Gb graphics memory, so should be a candidate for Hardware Transcoding, but I can’t get it working - is it possible on Ryzen CPUs, or is it just possible on IBM CPU’s?.

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  1. IBM doesn’t make CPUs anymore. (been almost 20 years since the PowerPC CPU)

  2. A Ryzen or Intel processor, with the current Nvidia GPU drivers, can use the GPU provided their documentation shows the driver supports H.264 and H.265/HEVC transcoding.

  3. Intel CPUs can use the internal Quick Sync Video processor without any additional software. PMS provides those drivers with each installation.

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Thanks, slip of the keyboard with IBM instead on Intel. When I started in this computer game in 1983 (yes, I’m over 70 now), IBM was the only game in town!
Yes, the GPU driver supports H264 and H265/HEVC transcoding -its a new GPU introduced late 2019.
There is talk of needing a NVDEC patch - but others claim Plex has had that support for several months and you don’t need the patch. Do I need to patch the Nvidia Driver still?

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LOL :rofl:

I figured I’d poke you on that a bit. There aren’t many who even know what an IBM PC or IBM PC/XT is. I had an XT sitting on my dining room table in 1983 (it was expensive back then for all 10 MB of disk space)

The talk about patching is to bypass something in the Nvidia drivers themselves. I don’t bother following the discussion because it’s card-specific

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PC Jr.
PC AT
(Brother worked at IBM)

Those Ryzen chips are impressive, affordable, and a 7 is in the planning stages for a new Gamer/Encoder (may be a 9 by the time it happens…lol).

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Consider the 7 / 3700x. That’s what I was going to build before I found the NUC8

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and when you tell kids nowadays about how a 300 baud acoustic coupler worked, they think you are crazy! I now use a 1.5 gig fibre service - we’ve come a very long way!

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300 was a luxury.

I had an ASR-33 with punch and reader for the longest time.

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