# Please add hardware transcoding support for all/most transcoding tasks

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-hardware-transcoding-support-for-all-most-transcoding-tasks/934533>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-hardware-transcoding-support-for-all-most-transcoding-tasks/934533 "2025-12-15T15:13:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![D4rk4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@D4rk4](https://forums.plex.tv/u/D4rk4)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-hardware-transcoding-support-for-all-most-transcoding-tasks/934533/1 "2025-12-15T15:13:00Z")

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For now, only playback streaming using HW transcoding, but for most tasks, the CPU is used…