Hey everyone! We’ve been working on improving the logic for how Plex Media Server burns in subtitles when hardware transcoding in order to achieve a significant performance boost (especially for low powered CPUs) and we’re looking for additional testing and feedback. Nvidia and Intel devices have …

I’ll test tonight or tomorrow morning. Hope that resolved it!

Out of sheer curiosity, can you share the general nature of the change?

@Volts There is an invalid pointer reference in the intel driver used for opencl integration. I have patched it locally and intend to submit the fix to intel.

When i’m transcoding a 4K file to 20 mbit on my celeron j4125 it’s running on all 4 cores currently (CPU on 90%) with build 1.40.6.8849. However it has more issues (Is buffering more often) with transcoding a 4K file into 20 mbit when it was running on 1 core (CPU on ± 20%) build 1.40.6.8820-7000. D…

@nl1bzw can you please attach some logs?

Sure, here are the logs from build 1.40.6.8820-7000 : [image] Synology Transcoding Issues NAS & Devices Here you go Plex Media Server Logs_2024-08-07_21-37-13.zip (3.3 MB) And here are the logs from build: 1.40.6.8849 Plex Media Server Logs_2024-08-11_22-08-07.zip …

hi there big problem with Hebrew subtitles in plex appi check on my iphone and my ipad i pad. i see Gibberish i add photo and all time stuck. i am in my network, and if i choose english sub, all good. but if i try hebrew, it stuch all time, and not show subs like a picture i added. please help me.…

@nl1bzw there is a known issue with Intel GLK devices and tonemapping on some linux kernels. The issue is in the driver and I have brought it to Intel’s attention. Ref: GPU hangs when using GLK · Issue #749 · intel/compute-runtime · GitHub

[image] chris_decker08: next time it happens (before you upgrade) just grab the logs via the troubleshooting section in settings. Happened again, took a while this time. I’ll install todays next unless you want me to keep testing the one from 8/7 Plex Media Server Logs_2024-08-11_14-43-23.zi…

Thanks, let’s hope that intel will bring out a fix for it.

Subtitle Burn-In Improvement Test Build

Plex Media Server

nl1bzw August 11, 2024, 8:08pm 78

Sure, here are the logs from build 1.40.6.8820-7000 :

And here are the logs from build: 1.40.6.8849

Plex Media Server Logs_2024-08-11_22-08-07.zip (3.3 MB)

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