# Hardware Transcoding Terrible Quality

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [August 14, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480 "2023-08-14T22:17:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![roberto188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@roberto188](https://forums.plex.tv/u/roberto188)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/1 "2023-08-14T22:17:21Z")

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Why is the hardware transcoding quality SO incredibly bad for Live TV? I am using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. When using Jellyfin or Emby the hardware transcoding quality was perfectly fine. Even when I set the bitrate settings to 12 or 18 Mbps, it renders a blocky horrible mess. Is there some setting I need to change? Transcoding movies works totally fine, TV however, there is very very very bad blocking all over.

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**Author:** ![roberto188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@roberto188](https://forums.plex.tv/u/roberto188)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/2 "2023-08-21T20:02:41Z")

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Bump? Anyone?

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**Author:** ![roberto188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@roberto188](https://forums.plex.tv/u/roberto188)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/3 "2023-08-30T23:06:37Z")

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Am I the only one with this issue?

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**Author:** ![kd6icz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kd6icz/32/18712_2.png) [@kd6icz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kd6icz)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/4 "2023-09-26T02:40:43Z")

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What CPU do you have? Does it have integrated graphics?

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**Author:** ![roberto188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@roberto188](https://forums.plex.tv/u/roberto188)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/5 "2023-09-26T10:25:17Z")

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i5 2500k.

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**Author:** ![roberto188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@roberto188](https://forums.plex.tv/u/roberto188)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/6 "2023-11-16T16:09:15Z")

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The latest Plex allows you to select you hardware acceleration hardware to use. For some reason there are TWO listings for my NVIDIA card. When I select the 1st one it provides terrible quality. When I select the 2nd one, it work perfect. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![kd6icz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kd6icz/32/18712_2.png) [@kd6icz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kd6icz)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/7 "2023-12-05T13:38:56Z")

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Oh yeah…. Use the Nvidia for sure. You have a very old CPU and Intel QSV didn’t become usable producing a watchable quality until the 11th generation.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-terrible-quality/850480/8 "2024-03-04T13:39:38Z")

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