HW Transcoding not working anymore (Synology Diskstation)

[arfung]

Hi,

I have a synology diskstation 1016+ and hardware transcoding has been broken for some time for me. I posted my solution (install FFMpeg package and use post-processing script after DVR recording here:

Synology Post Processing Script to convert DVR mpeg-2 to h.264 with hardware acceleration

Server Version#: 1.18.0.1944 I have a Synology 1019+, with hardware transcoding capabilities. I run plex-dvr on the Synology box using HDHomeRun CableCard. I wanted to: use a post-processing DVR script to convert the MPEG2 video recordings to H.264 format to save space and increase compatibility use the GPU rather than CPU on Synology, because CPU compressing hits the processor really hard and is slow. Took me a lot of trial and error, but here is how I did it. install FFMPEG package from…

Let me know if you find this useful. I have updated the script to generate h.265 (HEVC) files and I can share that one if you like.