Plex Media Server - Transcoder Forum Preview ALL: Below please find our first step toward fixing what ails PMS and the transcoder. In this step, we are addressing the Apollo Lake, Gemini Lake, and older processors. Those processors had been configured to use the Intel Media Driver. Unfortunate…

Ditto above. This seems to have resolved at least the main transcoder issues experienced previously esp with subtitles - thank you. Ds920.

Working fine and without problems on the Synology DS 918+ with DSM7 without the vaapidriver reference in the .xml file.

Okay, I executed a s6-svc -r /var/run/s6/services/plex/ as mentioned in this post after performing the update so I didn’t have to restart the container. Now I too have verion 1.32.8.7605 running and can confirm it’s working. :slight_smile:

No issues so far on my DS920+, DSM7 with the SPK (so not running in a container)

HW HDR tone mapping still broken on j4105 with Unraid 6.12.4 (kernel 6.1.49).

Will need Server DEBUG logs for this. We fixed all GLK (GeminiLake CPUs) by reconfiguring the default VaapiDriver and providing that ivd driver There are so many reports of success with no failures, I need to know what is happening. Our Lab machine vs stock J4105 Intel Celeron J4005 …

@ChuckPa Plex Media Server Logs_2023-10-25_18-03-51.zip (3.5 MB)

@premikkoci 1… Your HW transcoding is functioning as it should. Oct 25, 2023 17:21:34.433 [22689879431992] DEBUG - [Req#230/Transcode] Streaming Resource: Determining preferred transcode encoders through transcode only decision. Oct 25, 2023 17:21:34.433 [22689879431992] DEBUG - [Req#230/Transcode…

@ChuckPa Regular HW transcoding works just fine but HDR tone mapping does not. See the logs (no subs) Plex Media Server Logs_2023-10-25_21-32-46.zip (2.9 MB) [image]

Btw I have found this in the unraid log Oct 25 21:59:27 UNRAID kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Resetting rcs0 for preemption time out Oct 25 21:59:27 UNRAID kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Plex Transcoder[32177] context reset due to GPU hang Oct 25 21:59:27 UNRAID kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm]…

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djfriday13 November 1, 2023, 8:04pm 40

can we now update back to the main releases? looks like this release has the fixes but wanted to confirm. Thanks.

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