# Plex Media Server

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release-announcements\
**Created:** [March 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447 "2013-03-10T03:33:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![emilybersin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@emilybersin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/emilybersin)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/286 "2019-09-16T20:25:52Z")

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**Plex Media Server 1.17.0.1709 is available in the Beta update channel**

NEW:

- (Transcoder) Update to current upstream ffmpeg
- (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Linux with Intel 9th-gen processors
- (Transcoder) Support for VC-1 hardware decoding on supported platforms
- (Transcoder) Support for hardware decoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
- (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Linux with Nvidia GPUs
- (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding of interlaced media

FIXES:

- (DVR) Comskip was not available in recording options on FreeBSD.
- (DVR) Enhanced Plex Media Server’s performance by skipping reads of previously processed XMLTV guide data. (#9846)
- (Transcoder) The server could become unresponsive after certain precisely-timed client interactions.
- Corrects Live TV playback error when tuning to channel that contains space(s) in it.
- (Transcoder) The server could use large amounts of CPU time when converting subtitles (#10478)

**Note: Hardware transcoding with Nvidia GPUs now requires driver v418.30 or newer**

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