Migrating Core to Scale for Plex Hardware acceleration

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Hello there.
Reading here and there I understood that iGPU acceleration is not available in Plex on Truenas core (that I’m currently running).
I’m planning to migrate to Truenas Scale in order to getting my AMD iGPU recognized and used by the system.
My question is:

since I have Plex, Qbittorrent and Syncthing currently running, should I expect any issue after migration?

Will my AMD iGPU being recognized and used in Plex?

Thanks

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I do not think Plex has ever support transcoding with SMD GPUs on Linux, their support page also just lists Intel and Nvidia on Linux: Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming | Plex Support

I might of course be wrong.

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great, so any effort would be useless…
thanks for the link :slight_smile:

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for those who are interested… I successfully migrated core to scale and the AMD iGPU works perfectly in Plex.

HW transcoding/encoding perfect!
CPU usage dropped from 100% to 5-10% with a 4k 25mbps movie

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Awesome, thanks. It would be cheaper to buy a 5600G/GT/GE to upgrade my 2700 (regular) than to buy an Intel motherboard and processor.

Also, if this works now, then maybe I can stick with AMD to build a new gaming PC (researching and planning a PS5 Pro copycat/killer build to move away from the xbox series X I have) - new build has to be okay to become a hand me down Truenas box in the future. Tired of the restrictions and subscriptions. $10 a month just to play games I already own online, or 20$ a month with games I have little interest in playing. I did the 3 years xbox ultimate for $100 thing but its about to expire as is my patience with the platforms cash grabbing behavior and restrictions.