Rockchip Hardware Transcoding

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+1 for support

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+1 for support

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+1 for support

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Lifetime Plex Pass seems like a huge mistake now, honestly. Jellyfin and ffmpeg can do it, and they didn’t lock hw accelerated transcodes behind a paywall.

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+1 for support

Running plex on 2 turing pi RK1 modules with the rockchip and reallly could use HW transcoding.

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What makes folks think Rockchip will be supported before Raspberry Pi devices?

They’ve been supported in FFMPEG for literally years. Via OMX.

There are two ARM devices supported now: WD NASes and Nvidia Shield. That’s not going to change.

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Ditto, I am expecting a OP5+ with 32 gigs tomorrow, HWS mountable case has been printed. I would sure like to get my Plex server off the Beelink and repurpose the Beelink for some light modeling for the 3D Printer.

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+1 for rockchip support! I just see qnap TS-AI642-8G and thay have hw transcoding and Rockchip RK3588 CPU. Device is great, but i can’t believe plex don’t support it.

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You seem confused. People here are requesting support for Rockchip, but not at the expense of RPi hw support. Where was that stated anywhere in this thread? I guess people didn’t request support on the two ARM devices you shared - that’s how they eventually got support, right? Further, nobody here cares about ffmpeg support via OMX - it’s a thread to request the feature in Plex OOTB. You could find a more relevant thread in which to air your imagined grievances.

If you want someone requesting RK over RPi: Hardware transcoding makes more sense for Rockchip before RPi as most RK chipsets include a dedicated VPU for video processing - something not found on RPi devices, with their weak GPUs and much lower specs. The RPi 4 has half the cores and at most a quarter of the RAM of my RK3588S. RPi 4’s VideoCore also doesn’t support 8k encoding/decoding and only supports 4k decoding. Lame.

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I’m not confused and it wasn’t my intent to offend anybody. I’d like to see an inexpensive ARM board supported by Plex. But thanks for your comment.

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Happy to help.

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+1 for RK3588 hardware decoding support!

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Now It’s 2025 still nothing happened.

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And nothing will. They have the audacity to increase their Plex Pass price - something they probably wouldn’t even need to if they would simply enable support for popular low-power hardware… I’ve been a happy Jellyfin user for months now. Never going back.

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+1 for rk3566 support !

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+1 bump for support. Seems silly that the device supports ffmpeg, and has the video transcode capabilities, but the software can’t support it. At least give us access to a beta version that can use other transcoding libraries and let the community build around it.

These arm devices are amazing little low power boxes.

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Just no official comment for such a long time, there is a feeling that we are being treated like pigs.

At least some minimal explanation that they can’t do it for some reason or plan to do it in 2030y…

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I suppose there’s some misconception. Plex usually only comment to clarify suggestions (or to clearly state something’s not going to happen). Not sure what makes you feel treated like an animal?!

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Jellyfin, which is an open source Plex competitor free app has supported RK3588 hardware acceleration for over a year now, yet Plex TV has not yet implemented this?

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Thank you! I’m switching to JellyFin

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