has anyone tested PMS on the latest M2, Pro/Max machines? does the better media engine provide any benefits? wondering if it’s an improvement over the M1 for simultaneous transcodes? or is the Video Toolbox implementation still a bottleneck for multiple HW transcodes?

[image] EWING: is the Video Toolbox implementation still a bottleneck What bottleneck?

maybe I misunderstood, but I had thought there was a limitation on how many hw transcodes video toolbox could support concurrently… I guess more importantly, I’m wondering if there any additional advantages in the M2 family that PMS can leverage for transcoding.

Plex’s support doc claims there’s a limit of a single stream, but I don’t think that’s been accurate for a very long time. https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ There have been reports of 6+ simultaneous sessions on Apple M1 CPUs: Plex Media Server r…

After sone not very scientific testing, I’m seeing a lot more CPU than I expected and uncertain if that is expected or if the new chip and/or GPU isn’t being taken advantage of completely.

PMS on Mac with M2 Pro/Max

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PMS on Mac with M2 Pro/Max

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