# Select hardware acceleration for specific usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [December 3, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/select-hardware-acceleration-for-specific-usage/216262 "2017-12-03T03:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sangokudbz79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sangokudbz79](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sangokudbz79)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/select-hardware-acceleration-for-specific-usage/216262/1 "2017-12-03T03:15:22Z")
Hi, Can you please consider implementing checkboxes to specify if we want to use hardware transcoding for : -Live transcoding -Sync I could see multiple scenarios where I would prefer for example to have hardware transcode prefered for live transcoding and leave sync to non-hardware transcode. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/select-hardware-acceleration-for-specific-usage/216262/2 "2021-04-01T15:23:37Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@More control over when to use Hardware Transcoding ( HW acceleration )](https://forums.plex.tv/t/more-control-over-when-to-use-hardware-transcoding-hw-acceleration/231507): > > I really like that we finally have HW acceleration, but I would like to have bit more control over when and how to use it. Because only a on and off switch is not really usable for me. As the documentation already is stated: The video quality may be lower, appearing more blurry or blocky. This is especially true and more noticeable when streaming at low quality levels below 720p. (Hardware-accelerated video encoders are faster, but lower quality than software encoders.) The basic option can b… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/select-hardware-acceleration-for-specific-usage/216262/3 "2021-06-10T00:43:00Z")