Since testing the Plex server on my Shield, I’ve now discovered this thread as I am seeing similar issues with hardware transcoding - both during streaming and optimizing.
Hope the Plex team can address this soon as it is literally a show-stopper for using Plex Server on Shield.
Light at the end of the tunnel:
Glad to see this thekiefs. I was hoping Sheild/Plex could avoid a one year anniversary of this topic, which would be August.
So it was Plex leaking memory all along? How can the Plex dev team not reproduce/fix this quicker?
Having tested a bit the beta version with this fix - sorry I can’t share, don’t have such permissions - I can say that for sure there is no crash and fallback to software decoder.
At least on the videos I used the conversation rate was on average at x6
@ge_bil does this fix “live” transcoding as well? i.e. watching a stream that is being HW transcoded? I’m more interested in that than “background” transcoding. Thanks. Really glad if this is fixed.
I can confirm the same. I have a beta build and h/w transcoding is fixed.
Seems so, tested with a few 4K (HEVC Main 10 HDR) and they are HW transcoded just fine when I play them on my mobile to H264 without any crashes or so
Great to hear!
So where are we at with this… I had the beta build for the Nvidia shield and now that 8.0 is out, that fix is out the the public. I am running 1.16.3.1402 and I assume this is not the Beta build you guys are talking about (or is it). I heard rumor that a beta build was to be released on the 26th and something to the public on the 6th. I am in the beta program but I think there is even another beta program which you guys are talking about.
As far as I know, I am still waiting on the next build to be released for this memory issue to be fixed and I can then enable Hardware Transcoding.
Correct?
The beta with the fix I have is 1.16.4 so I assume it is not out yet in public beta
Thanks for letting me know.
This wait is killing me!
Seriously though, can anyone shed some light on this early-beta/alpha version? It seems several people have it, so I’m guessing it’s not a raw dev build. How would one hypothetically qualify for joining this “beta before the beta” group??
I believe the update has been released as I see an update in play store now
I see it as well… here are the notes… don’t know why these are not up yet.
ITEMS ADDED:
ITEMS FIXED:
It works great, I have 7 streams at the same time with HW encoding (low bitrate), no more crashes!!
rock solid up to 4k even the base 16gb model. thanks to the devs fixing this long pending issue
As far as i know, Nvidia fixed the issue, not the plex team… they didn’t manage to fix it since a year.
Wow! Plex is back!
After almost one year of waiting i can finally start using my SHIELD TV as a Plex Server.
My girlfriend with awful internet connection will be happy
So… I’m going to ask a silly question… but my plex on my ShieldTV still says 1.14.1.5488.
How do I go about getting it updated…?
