May I ask which NUC you got? I’ve been eyeing off some of the Asus NUC14 models to replace my Hades Canyon, but I wasn’t sure how they’d go with having integrated ARC GPUs, and running either 22.04.4, or 24.04.1 
I don’t really want to lose my hardware transcoding and tonemapping 
ASUS NUC 14 is kind of wierd line… becouse some have Core 3 100U CPU (ultra mobile cpu with minimal TDP) but there are Raptor Lake Refresh (so basicly 13th gen Intel cpu), yet Core 5 and newer have Meteor Lake 14th gen CPU.
And if you get one with Core 7 or Core 5 with TDP ≥ 65W, the CPU will literally overvolt itself to the death 
but Intel have some microcode fixes, just not sure if ASUS made them in form of UEFI update…
I was eyeing off a Core 7 Meteor Lake at 28W, so that’s why I’m curious what Chuck got
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@ChuckPa Maybe I missed it, but are the issues resolved in the Public or even Plexpass versions of PMS for tone mapping and transcoding? I’m still having issues where I need to disable tone mapping.
Ryzen cpu, Arc a770, proxmox latest, 6.8.8-2-pve kernel. LXC Debian 12.2-1. lsio Plex container.
I tried installing (after compiling, etc.) the Intel media-driver and it appears to have been successful. I am not great on linux, so I don’t know if it’s using the driver or not.
Cheers,
From the Forum Preview post.
Nvidia and Intel devices have been improved on Windows systems and Nvidia, Intel, and AMD (assuming no ToneMapping is required) devices have been improved on Linux based systems.
All the Intel NAS CPUs desparately needed HW burning of subtitles.
PMS internal logic got a lot better at handling how it does transcoding.
This is part of the “Catch Up” we’ve been doing.
When we’ve completed this (it’s in PMS main), next comes the full transcoder upgrade where we get proper AMD support. As best we can tell, Arc is included in that main upstream version.
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For those curious about my new NUC.
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The MeteorLake horror stories caught my attention and made me dig deeper
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Intel has known about the problem since the RaptorLake and swept it under the carpet.
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No sooner had I changed my order from the ScorpionCanyon to one of the last (new) DragonCanyon NUCs, Intel announced they’re laying off 15,000 employees.
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I’m fixed-income and can’t waste that kind of money on a lemon.
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I have a Dragon Canyon NUC12DCMi9.
– 64 GB RAM (I can install 128GB if they made DDR4 x 64GB) -
I spent 9 hours on it last night trying to make it work
– Can’t handle dual SSDs with hard/dev/xxxxxxpaths in /etc/fstab due to how the kernel enumerates devices now. (DUMB DUMB DUMB)
– Can’t display video over USB-C/Thunderbolt on Linux (ok on Windows or even native BIOS). Fix in 6.8.1 kernel.
I’m putting it back in the box until 6.8.1 kernel is out.
If that doesn’t work, I’m going to sell it and find something else as I need my fully working dual display (side by side) workstation.
I will get /etc/fstab edited so I then will be able to move things around
IF/WHEN I get another computer — AMD all the way – PERIOD
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Intel is in a downward spiral. You see the 13th Gen corrosion issues in the die? Gamers Nexus has a couple of videos on that topic.
Corrosion like that happens when you “cook the solder” and connection pad.
This is why I held back and stayed with the AlderLake.
By the time I outgrow this:
- AI will replace me in the forums
- I’ll be too old to care
So I’m on 23.10 now with Gemini Lake.
Just to confirm - you’re saying if I upgrade to 24.04.1 when it’s released in the next few days AND upgrade to PMS 1.40.2 build>8555 everything should work?
The PMS download page shows 1.40.4 build 8679 dated July 9th as the current version. Am I misinterpreting the version number?
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- ABSOLUTELY upgrade to the point release 24.04.1. 24.04 (.0) is a trainwreck.
- You will get the updated kernel
- You can stay on the mainline PMS releases (downloads page) or you can help us with the shakedown-cruise of the HW subtitle burning and PMS transcoding launch logic. (See link above to the thread)
I don’t know, Chuck, I’m old and for some reason still care. Not sure what’s wrong with me.
Alrighty, I still feel like I’m not understanding what is available or what is needed to get it working (hdr tone mapping + transcodes).
I’ve updated my proxmox kernel to 6.8.12-1-pve
Running pms 1.40.5.8829
Intel media-driver installed (I think)
Are we still waiting on the transcoder update in PMS to be released for this to start working?
Sorry for being a block head.
Did you go to the preview thread and get PMS ?
@ChuckPa I’m testing that version right now; if I enable HDR Tone Mapping, it hangs, or crashes.
****** PLEX MEDIA SERVER CRASHED, CRASH REPORT WRITTEN: /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Crash Reports/1.40.6.8820-a3b5dd1b4/PLEX MEDIA SERVER/530b8dde-fa6e-48eb-e84df9a1-cabda9c5.dmp
That thread is really focused on the sub burn-in (Nvidia and Intel devices have been improved on Windows systems and Nvidia, Intel, and AMD (assuming no ToneMapping is required) devices have been improved on Linux based systems), so I’m not sure the tone mapping issue is tested properly with that release.
It is testing precisely as stated with the focus on subtitle burning.
What we did was completely overhaul how PMS constructed the transcode (FFMPEG) command line / FFMPEG “Pipeline” (defined how it handled each stage).
The primary goal is to confirm we did not break anything.
I would very much like you to grab that log (recreate if needed) – with “Report crashes to Plex” disabled. Disabling it means the DMP file is retained on your machine. which you can then upload into the thread for the transcoder engineer
Make sense?
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Sent.
I’m having the same issue. my logs very also attached to my post in the subtitle thread. I am runningUbuntu with kernel 6.8.12 and an Intel ARC A770M.
No official Arc support at this time. Will have to wait until after the current subtitle burn-in effort and (expected) to be part of the transcoder (FFMPEG) full upgrade from upstream.
Understood, it was previously working prior to kernel 6.8 hopefully future versions of Plex support it.
The Linux kernel is a “hot mess” right now. There’s a lot of breakage.
Gnome is broken too (no dual monitor DisplayPort over USB, etc) .
We are , unfortunately, gated by some of those basic capabilities but
our plan is as follows:
- Complete the current Forum Preview of HW subtitle burning
- Perform a full upgrade (download fresh FFMPEG from the upstream source)
- Apply Plex customizations to it (integrate it fully into PMS)
- Release as the new transcoder.
We expect to have both AMD and ARC GPU support as the result of that effort.
Our existing transcoder is a version behind upstream (has patches only for bug fixes) which means its lacking major feature support (like GPUs)
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