Following an update to PMS on Nvidea Shield around December 2021, transcoding no longer works properly. Hardware acceleration fails on ever attempt, falling back to Software Acceleration for transcoding. The transcode appears to work fine for about 60 seconds before it begins to buffer constantly. This happens on all clients (Android TV, Fire OS, android app, Roku etc.)
The files in question are x265 MKV files, they transcoded fine with hardware acceleration before. I have factory reset the SHIELD but the issue remains. Any suggestions or possible fixes?
You can only downgrade. So far, there doesn’t seem to be a solution.
Personally I gave up on PMS on Shield and have moved on again to a standard Intel based PC/Linux install.