Server Version#: Version 1.40.1.8227 Player Version#: Multiple I need help since I’m obviously doing something wrong. We are talking testing on 15-20 different installations. Put in about 60-80 hours trial and error and I’m soon giving up. Trying to get HW transcoding working with no luck. Tryi…

After help from another forum, forcing the encode/decode package into Ubuntu, now I can see in Plex that it says (hw) in the adminpanel where the film is playing. Also in CLI ubntu it looks like this: [bild] But still CPU goes skyhigh and movie is unwatchable… How is this possible?

Can you post a screenshot of the dashboard when playing back the content? Specifically the transcode and bitrate sections of the media playing.

are you installing this native in ubuntu. if so, you should not need to install anything else as the package will install everything it needs. I think they are having some issues with some new kernels that are not working. chuckpa maintains the package so if you are installing native and it isn’t wo…

I am running a pure bare metal server. No containers, not ESXi, no Hypervisor, no docker, nothing. CPU,Motherboard,GPU,PSU,SSD - Ubuntu 22.04. I am realy loosing my mind on this. Last week after jag trying everything I got it to work on Ubuntu 22.04 with P620. I threw in 1 miljon installs of d…

Hi Nate. Now I tried a Debian 12,5 on a Core i5 TigerLake. Followed a a guide from Debian how to get VA-API working " For Gen 8+ Intel hardware, the free driver can be installed with the intel-media-va-driver package." Here is a picture of intel top command, the CPU meter in Plex and Playback inf…

See how next to subtitle it says ‘burn in’? That’s requiring the CPU to do that because it can’t be done with hardware. If you turn off any subtitles do you get a different result?

Hello. No I havent tryed with or without burn in. Does this make a difference for the experience? I havent reflected of if I need text or not. Dident think of it as an impact on performance. Does the burn in text occupy 60% of an Core i5 gen11 ? Seems alot? When I got the Kaby lake cpu + Quadro …

It can take a lot of CPU. If your end device supports a subtitle format they don’t have to get burned in because it can just stream them to play back on the device. VOBSUB’s aren’t supported by a lot of client devices. Maybe in your other tests you were using a different subtitle format? You woul…

they are currently working on making subtitles be able to use HW but we have no eta. latest i have seen is here. [image] Feedback on the problem that PGS format subtitles do not work properly during hardware transcoding o Plex Media Server @Cryator If you don’t want to b…

But if I havent touched the automatic then my PS4 Pro, Xbox One S and Winn11 PC in firefox or desktop app cannot handle text. Can I enforce text off on server side?

HW Transcoding not working on either ubuntu or Win Server, multiple hardware configs

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they are currently working on making subtitles be able to use HW but we have no eta. latest i have seen is here.

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HW Transcoding not working on either ubuntu or Win Server, multiple hardware configs

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