Reason why AMD Hardware transcoding is not supported on Linux?

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Hi, with the increases popularity of AMD CPUs now a days and it’s pretty power efficient CPUs, it seems like a perfect setup for a home server.

But from what I can see in the Plex Hardware Transcoding compatibility page, AMD GPU transcoding is not supported in Plex on Linux. Even though FFmpeg supports it for quite a while now. This seems to be like that for years now and no information nor reason has been given on why this artificial limitation.

Browsing through the forums here I found several topics discussing this, but I haven’t seen anybody official from Plex commenting on this topic.

Are there any reasons why AMD Hardware transcoding is being ignored? Are there any proper information regarding this topic anywhere?

Without going much into speculations, why such a silence from the Plex Devs regarding this pretty long lasting issue?

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Correct.

The most recent update:

Plex never releases product plans.

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