Apologies if this has been asked before, but I still can’t find a straight answer.
I have a M2 Mac mini that does an awesome job transcoding 4K with Tone Mapping off. I can do multiple streams converted from 4K to HD and the CPU barely breaks 10%.
But as soon as I enable Tone Mapping, I can play maybe 3 simultaneously before one will start to skip and buffer. The other two still seems to play ok but the CPU usage is like 90%. Granted, even one movie tone mapped in software is probably good going, so this is not a horrible outcome.
But Apple Silicon is here for the long haul and deserves to be fully supported in Plex.
What is the reason Tone Mapping is not supported in hardware? Is it not supported at the hardware level or is it an API issue?
I find this hard to believe it’s a hardware limitation because video editing apps like Final Cut and Premiere can do tone mapping in real time.
Just want to know if it’s at least on the dev road map.
Thanks
