[SOLVED] Plex doesnt do HW transcoding on Ubuntu 18.04 with i9-9900 (tone mapping related)

Hi again ChuckPa.

Problem solved!!

I simply followed MrSliff’s solution on this topic and it now works!!

HDR tonemapping enabled, and here is an HDR to SDR transcode… Using hardware!

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Just for fun, I tried to start 10 of those streams (which was totally impossible before, as a single stream being transcoded drained all of my CPU) and of course, it works flawlessly since it’s now using the iGPU!


CPU being super chill while 10x HDR → SDR transcodes are going on…

Anyway, thanks a lot to both of you for your help on this topic, it helped me as well!

Tip for anyone who will try to follow MrSliff’s solution on this topic: don’t fret if the make -j8 command shows a lot of warning in the CLI, just go ahead with it and it’ll work just fine.

Damn, I’m happy. Thanks again to everyone!

EDIT: Just for being precise, I’m running Ubuntu Server 20.04.3, so this solution applies to Ubuntu versions beyond 18.04 somehow!