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[image] brainslayer: you dont need to show me the buch of licenses which are included in plex. If you read the file, you will see it contains a link to our source code for download!

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/ffmpeg-source/plex-media-server-ffmpeg-gpl-10ae7f268d.tar.gz –2025-07-08 17:05:40-- https://downloads.plex.tv/ffmpeg-source/plex-media-server-ffmpeg-gpl-10ae7f268d.tar.gz Resolving downloads.plex.tv (downloads.plex.tv)… 2606:4700:4400::ac40:97cd, 2606:4700:4400::681…

Darn, and can sadly confirm that the download link is not avail for public I have raised this internally

@brainslayer I have been informed that the link will work when the version get’s released This is a Preview, and code might change, so we do not provide downloads for preview versions

okay. not really in complicance with the licence, but i’m not the devils advocate

[image] Transcoder Upgrade Forum Preview as far as i know (and i might be wrong of course) 7.x was the first ffmpeg with official av1 support. I believe you’re thinking of VVC (H.266). FFMPEG 7.0 is the first version that included an experimental decoder for it, and it was then promoted to sta…

likelly. dont know anymore. wasnt too focused on it

Apologies if this was mentioned already or in another thread, Does this forum preview transcoder upgrade enabled transcoding with Battlemage (Arc B580)? Specifically through ubuntu 25.04?

[image] Burt_Macklin: Does this forum preview transcoder upgrade enabled transcoding with Battlemage (Arc B580)? No. See Battlemage Support - #75 by ChuckPa

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nx6 July 9, 2025, 11:49pm 25

I believe you’re thinking of VVC (H.266). FFMPEG 7.0 is the first version that included an experimental decoder for it, and it was then promoted to stable status in 7.1.

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