Plex Server - GPU Transcoding - Linux

All,

Just checking if this is being worked on and where I can get information on progress?


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@daniel@cookes.cc said:
All,

Just checking if this is being worked on and where I can get information on progress?


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Plex doesn’t typically release information about upcoming/unreleased features. Because of that there isn’t a place you can find information on the progress if any at all.

@jmckee said:

@daniel@cookes.cc said:
All,

Just checking if this is being worked on and where I can get information on progress?


D

Plex doesn’t typically release information about upcoming/unreleased features. Because of that there isn’t a place you can find information on the progress if any at all.

Perhaps one of the developers could at least give me a hint. As Plex does not cluster… GPU transcoding would be a welcome feature.

@daniel@cookes.cc said:

@jmckee said:

@daniel@cookes.cc said:
All,

Just checking if this is being worked on and where I can get information on progress?


D

Plex doesn’t typically release information about upcoming/unreleased features. Because of that there isn’t a place you can find information on the progress if any at all.

Perhaps one of the developers could at least give me a hint. As Plex does not cluster… GPU transcoding would be a welcome feature.

There is a lengthy subject available on the forum.
GPU transcoding can be via integrated gPU on the processor or additional card.
Libmfx from intel is not open source, same goes for Nvidia.
Not so easy to implement.

The newest mainline versions of ffmpeg have full support for both quicksync and nvenc encoding… however Plex uses it’s own version of ffmpeg which are behind the mainline version and have probably been sufficiently modified so that merging them and the newest mainline ffmpeg would not be trivial and Plex has never showed much interest in supporting hw encode/decode so I wouldn’t expect this to work any time soon.

@camilus said:
Plex has never showed much interest in supporting hw encode/decode so I wouldn’t expect this to work any time soon.

yeah, they’ll never do it…

oh wait…

3rd paragraph → https://www.plex.tv/blog/nvidia-shield-you-complete-us/

4th paragraph → https://www.plex.tv/blog/endless-summer-plex-western-digital/

(little bit of quicksync lovin already happening there in WD box)

Since when does ‘have never shown much interest in xy’ mean ‘will never implement xy’. Hwencode/decode on some platforms has been relatively well supported by hw manufacturers for years (all three major graphics card manufacturers have supported it on Windows for years) and many pieces of software both open and closed have also had it for years, but Plex has only recently started implementing it recently.

@daniel@cookes.cc said:

@jmckee said:

@daniel@cookes.cc said:
All,

Just checking if this is being worked on and where I can get information on progress?


D

Plex doesn’t typically release information about upcoming/unreleased features. Because of that there isn’t a place you can find information on the progress if any at all.

Perhaps one of the developers could at least give me a hint. As Plex does not cluster… GPU transcoding would be a welcome feature.

I have found this project on Github about PLEX cluster GitHub - wnielson/Plex-Remote-Transcoder: A distributed transcoding backend for Plex . I have’t tryied my self yet so i’dont know if it works. Also i recall that some wear on the forum there is a thread about the project