Piteur 0 Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hi fellows, I wonder if there's any hardware acceleration on MacOS emby server ? If so, which kind of Mac models are supported ? Lifetime licence here, works well on a i5 4690T Windows server but I'm considering charging if to a recent NUC or a Mac Mini from last year...Mac could be nice for many reason but losing hardware acceleration isn't acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 29010 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Hi, we support MacOS's VideoToolbox. It's not as robust as the options on Windows though, so something to keep in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piteur 0 Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Hi, we support MacOS's VideoToolbox. It's not as robust as the options on Windows though, so something to keep in mind. Thanks for your quick answer ! What do you mean by "not as robust" ? Less efficient ? Unstable ? Or something else ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 29010 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 It doesn't support quite as many formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piteur 0 Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 It doesn't support quite as many formats. Ok Thanks ! I'll have to find another (bad) reason to switch to Mac ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haldir31 0 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Hello, I'm trying to use hardware transcoding on a mac mini 2018 but when playing any movie (H264 or H265), only the software transcoding seems to be used and the cpu become very high. What scenario are supported with the hardware transcoding on Mac OS ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 29010 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Hi, we use MacOS's videotoolbox api and it is somewhat limited compared to other platforms. Can we look at an example? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haldir31 0 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 For example when playing a hevc mkv movie in the web player, only the software transcoding is used: Same with 1080p h264 movie: I have transcoding enabled in the server settings: Do you need log files ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 29010 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 yes, the ffmpeg log file. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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