Preferred HW Transcoder Linux

Plex Media Server
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If you wish to override default selection, which is:

  1. Nvidia if installed and valid drivers
  2. /dev/dri/renderD128 device

The preference to set in Preferences.xml is: HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/device-name"

e.g.

HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD129"
-or-
HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD128" to force the Intel QSV vaapi

Also, if the group assignment for the device differs than that of the QSV device, user plex must be manually added to that group.

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