# Hardware Transcoding with AMD Cards?

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [March 18, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-with-amd-cards/229434 "2018-03-18T12:11:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-with-amd-cards/229434/8 "2019-09-07T12:56:44Z")

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Until there exists AMD support in the VA-API, there won’t be AMD support.  
AMD uses MESA making this AMD GPU support very unlikely in the immediate future.  
Intel QSV and nVidia are the two supported forms at this time.

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