I currently have about 20 users in my PLEX friends list that I’m sharing my content to. Most people are in my country (Sweden) and few are in Europe and 2 people are based in the U.S.
I’ve been thinking about streaming 4K and possibly HDR material to all these users. I also been thinking about either building a HTPC with a GPU SteamOS OR using my current desktop with a long HDMI to my TV. So if I get high end gaming graphics, then I can get rid of my PS4 PRO. I been thinking about the new Titan X (2016) and my question is actually… can I use it for PLEX as well? I was reading that Plex introduced some GPU acceleration. But the question is… Will it (or could it) be any improvements in my system in terms of any notable performance gain, if I’ll get one?
Thanks. I must have missunderstood. You think it will be on the roadmap? PLEX might implement hardware acceleration for Plex Pass users in the near future?
You and hundreds (thousands?) of other people would love this overdue feature. I have a single unused and unneeded PCIe slot in my server I’d drop a video card into in a heartbeat if this was an option.
My workstation has 8 x86 cores…or 480-ish CUDA cores…and if the difference it makes when encoding via Adobe’s Mercury Engine is anything to go by, I want it yesterday for Plex
@sremick said:
You and hundreds (thousands?) of other people would love this overdue feature. I have a single unused and unneeded PCIe slot in my server I’d drop a video card into in a heartbeat if this was an option.
Yeah. I agree on this matter. But so far it seems like Plex is listening to it’s community, but most of these “crucial features” takes time to really happen. But I wouldn’t be suprised if it’s actually going to happen in the future. But the real question might be… how long do we have to wait? 1 year? 2 years? 3 years? I hate to wait sometimes… Please just pull it off.
EDIT: Do you or anybody else know if this has been requested in the feature request forums?
@SupreX said:
But so far it seems like Plex is listening to it’s community, but most of these “crucial features” takes time to really happen.
If you have been following the “collections” fiasco you’d have a different opinion.
Plex’s modus operandi when it comes to “Collections”:
Spend many months working on fringe features the community isn’t asking for
Claim that “collections” isn’t something many people are asking for
Get caught in the lie (#2) when it’s pointed out that it just about the most-requested feature with 1100+ likes
Redefine “collections” then claim Plex already has it by trying to ramrod the convoluted process which is very much NOT “collections” into this new definition in order to avoid spending development time on actually implementing what people want.
Pretend “collections” is some weird/fringe feature only wanted by “power users” aka “the 1%” ignoring the fact that it’s a base feature in all of Plex’s competitors.
Dismiss it entirely on the basis that simply because “power users” are asking for it, that the 1% doesn’t represent everyone (ignoring #3 again).
I been missing a lot… But why are they not listening to the community? They must have a really good reason to it. I mean ignoring it’s customers (the source of income) must implies less income. So I don’t think it’s a good strategy. Or are they just blinded? However it’s sad… PLEX has so much potential. It’s still the best media server solution I come through so far.
I agree as @sremick I have a free pcie slot in my server, I will drop an gfx in a heartbeat when GPU support is added. It will help a lot with HEVC and 4k transcoding. I hope this is added as well as Intel Quicksync support. Sure one can throw in a 2-3,000$ CPU, but what is the point? when a 200$ can do same thing with proper hardware decoding support in Plex which ffmpeg supports.
