Mac M1 PMS questions and clarification

[FordGuy61]

@ripper2020

I bought a NUC like device with 11th gen intel and tried windows and linux and neither worked for full hardware accelerated 4k hdr transcoding with tone mapping enabled.

There are hardware accelerated tonemapping problems with PMS 1.28.1 & 1.28.2 on Linux systems using Intel GPUs (problems = it didn’t work). The workaround was to run a 1.28.0 release.

The problems are fixed in the 1.29.1 beta release.

PMS Packaging 07-2022 update - Forum Preview & Testing

Folks. PMS 1.29.1 is here. Now I can tell you: HDR tone mapping is built into PMS Intel Compute Runtime packages are NO LONGER NEEDED – You are free to remove them . I have removed all CPU detection and ICR management from the package itself. This has been tested and confirmed on all CPUs up through and including RocketLake. I gave the package to an AlderLake user who’s not gotten back to me but AlderLake support should now be fully functional. Regarding the release notes, I am ch…

@ripper2020

Lastly, wondering if sonic analysis works on the m1 macs as the plex support article says it does not work on any arm devices.

See Sonic Analysis for Music.

Requirements

Sonic analysis does have some specific requirements:

• Active Plex Pass subscription for the server admin account
• You must be running Plex Media Server v1.24.0 or newer
  • Windows, macOS, and Linux (64-bit only) are supported (this includes most NAS devices)
  • ARM-based CPUs are not supported (with the exception of Apple’s M1 systems, which use Rosetta 2 emulation)
• The new functionality based on sonic data is currently only available when using Plexamp for playback

@ripper2020

Also, can PMS on the m1 handle hardware accelerated tone mapping?

CPU only according to HDR to SDR Tone Mapping.