Hello, forum users! It’s time again for an update to Plex’s transcoding and analysis backend. This is a special forums-only preview release; the changes in this build will be included in an upcoming regular release once any new issues are handled. Please test this version with a variety of differen…

[image] TeknoJunky: I have encountered problems with some old XVID encoded avi files. I didn’t get logs, and disabling HA allowed (transcoded) playback. So far I can’t reproduce this on Intel with Windows 10. It decodes in software, encodes in hardware. Seems to look fine too. I don’t have n…

Can someone please address this on-topic question, or even merge it into here? I created a new post as reply was temporarily not working here. I included a link to the source media, and clean logs with just an example of it failing under hw transcode and it working under sw transcode. https://for…

To all following this thread, I have updated the original post to add a Known Issues section. This summarises the issues found and reported, which we have reproduced and are working on a fix for.

I see no mention of what I said earlier, ie. when I tried watching a video with Firefox and I had subtitles enabled, Plex began to eat excessive amounts of CPU-resources. I just would like a clarification as to whether it is what it is and there’s nothing that can be done, or if it’s an issue with t…

couldnt post in this thread at the time, but can you devs please add this to the list to fix. Sync not working. [image] Plex Media Server 1.16.7.1597 Sync Not working NAS & Devices yep all good now, Thanks

Yes I was wondering the same as by log shows the below. Bare in mind that same video files work flawlessly with NVDEC/NVENC on the latest production release version. Aug 31, 2019 13:33:12.180 [11120] Debug — TPU: hardware transcoding: zero-copy support not present Aug 31, 2019 13:33:12.180 [11120] …

Can not get Transcoder to utilize hardware. Yes the option is selected in settings. Running server hardware - Have a Matrox G200e listed in device manager? Could this be screwing something up? Spec’s: Xeon E-2174G 8GB RAM Avago/LSI - RAID Card RAID1 - S4610 Intel SSD’s P2000 Quadro Windows S…

Stuck in P-State P0 after transcode finished on NVIDIA is not a knwow problem (present in PMS since 2014) ?? it’s an epic problem

Yes we are aware of that issue, but it is not a new issue present only in the transcoder preview.

Plex Media Server 1.16.7.1597 (Updated) - New Transcoder Preview

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chrisallen September 4, 2019, 3:26am 110

Hi @gaygirlie_hotmail.com, Ahh that issue is actually present in current PMS 1.16.6 which is covered here Plex Media Server process uses 100% cpu (SRT->ASS Conversion) We have fixed internally, and should be included in an upcoming release.

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Plex Media Server 1.16.7.1597 (Updated) - New Transcoder Preview

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