Quicksync Hardware Transcoding Error: 4294967279

Plex Players
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I tried a few things so not sure if this was the exact fix but I removed VaapiDriver=“i965” from Preferences.xml and got HW working again. I don’t think it’s needed anymore (I added it a while ago for my DS920).

I’m on version 1.32.4.7195. Hope this helps.

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i have a DS220+ and I just realized Im also having issues with hw transcoding no longer working, Im running plex on docker with latest image and after reading the info on this thread I tried downgrading my plex to 1.29.2.6364 however i havent been successful as after downgrading and starting plex I keep getting some errors on the log (attached image)

I also tried removing VaapiDriver=“i965” from Preferences.xml with no success.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Fixed for me. I was running 1.29.2.6364 up until now that had transcoding, while latest didn’t.

What I did was:

  1. Removed VaapiDriver=“i965” from Preferences.xml
  2. Stopped container, removed container, removed downloaded images
  3. Changed container to latest version (image: linuxserver/plex:latest in docker-compose.yaml)
  4. Backed up the whole plex data directory to a .tar.gz
  5. Did docker-compose up -d for a clean start

Now it’s hw transcoding on 1.32.5.7349. Running Linuxserver Plex image on Synology DS218+, DSM 7.1.1.