I bought a Mini PC with 16GB RAM, a 500GB SSD and the Intel Celeron N5105 because of this post praising its performance. But unfortunately my experience was extremely disappointing. I am running the PC on Windows and it can’t handle transcoding even a single 4K file. The CPU ramps up to 100% and th…

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Hey, thanks for your reply! Because I indeed wanted to play 4K HDR files I switched to Ubuntu now. Unfortunately hardware transcoding still doesn’t work. Plex only uses software transcoding which has constant buffering and ramps the CPU up to 100%. Do you know if I can force Plex to use HW transcod…

If you have turned on the hardware checkboxes in the server settings, then you need to recheck your Intel driver installation. It will work if you find the missing piece.

It worked with these instructions, thank you!!

Intel N5105 can't handle single 4K transcode

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pl_5309 January 25, 2023, 5:44pm 6

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Intel N5105 can't handle single 4K transcode

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