Announcing the Transcoder Upgrade forum preview! Plex’s transcoder is a highly customized version of FFMPEG which has been accumulating bugfixes and features since it was forked back in 2012. With such a large number of differences, upgrading from the upstream repository became increasingly more di…

Does this support Av1 hardware transcoding on windows? At the moment it’s not supported using intel ARC.

@Feanorl av1 hw decode on windows is one of the features this update will allow for and will be one of the forst things i tackle once this update is public and stable

@brainslayer i’m not sure what you are refering to as ffmpeg 7.x provides no additional av1 decoders over 6.1.

Guys, this thread is for bug reports and preformance feedback, if you want to start an additional thread to complain about the choices that were made i’d be more than happy to interact with you there once i return from vacation. However its starting to interfear with the type of feadback we are look…

Please use this thread for discussion [image] Transcoder Upgrade Preview - Discussion plexPlex Media Server Questions, discussion, and other types of non-technical feedback This is the companion discussion thread for Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview Please…

as far as i know (and i might be wrong of course) 7.x was the first ffmpeg with official av1 support. and 6.1 had av1 only using a external patch. if i’m wrong. accept my excuse

Sorry that I haven’t had a chance to read through this entire thread in detail, but what do you think the best course of action is for this issue? Rollback server version? Any config change that will help maybe? I also am using the HD Homerun, but on a Nvidia Shield. I think it’s the same issue, …

Please share the entire zip of your PMS logs.

Please do check out this issue, which is still happening with some QSV devices. [image] Intel Quick Sync transcode quality issues on Intel 12th/13th gen CPUs Desktops & Laptops Server Version#: 1.31.0.6654 Player Version#: 4.101.1 (Plex Web – Also able to reproduce on Sam…

Can you please stick to the topic and purpose of this thread. [image] chris_decker08: this thread is for bug reports and performance feedback I did skim through your linked thread and grabbed any still available sample files. However there is a lack of logs and feedback in that thread while …

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