I have hardware transcoding option checked off but since I run an ancient setup I never expected it to actually trigger. I’m using an older Xeon x3380 processor and a super basic MSI Radeon X1550. What am I missing, how could it possibly be using hardware transcoding?
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You might wanna click on this, for the screenshot to have relevant info
The H.264 codec is already a few years old. So it is very likely that even a basic card like that can decode it.
You can see that the (hw) only appears after the source video codec, but not after the target video codec. Which means that only one half of the transcoding is done in hardware. But even this may produce a welcome reduction in CPU load.
It will probably look differently when you are trying to play e.g. a HEVC-encoded video.
Interesting…good to know. I’m guessing windows native is recognizing the compatible hardware causing hardware decoding to be used? Still according to this article since I’m not running any of the supported hardware there I expected it not be supported.
You have a driver software installed for this videoe card. And this one exhibits the h.264 decoder in the card to the system. Plex is using this interface in this case:
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Thank you for the explanation!
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