M1/M2 GPU acceleration support

[BigIrn 10]

Thank you guys for the clarification. I'll follow this too because I'm very interested in this as well. The only time I've ever needed something like HA (GPU for me?) is when I'm running Crossover and playing a steam game that is heavy 3d.

[kalanihelekunihi 6]

To give some specific details, the M1 Pro chip's MediaEngine can give you 20 streams of real time 4K H264 and H265 transcoded video with ZERO CPU or GPU involvement.
The M1 Max can give 30 streams.

Newer generation chips support even more streams, added 8K support, and additional codecs like AV1.

[niconico03 3]

@Lukewhen？

[MyTheater69 9]

Any estimated time about this feature ?

[AJV_20 57]

On 4/15/2025 at 1:36 PM, MyTheater69 said:

Any estimated time about this feature ?

When pigs fly. Actually might take longer than that at this rate

[blakktux 2]

I built an ffmpeg binary with video toolbox hwaccel and installed it over Emby's default ffmpeg.  It still refuses to allow me to use it, because the detection process is closed-source.

 

This is really pushing me towards an open source media solution.

[suwmlee 0]

I gave up using Emby on my Mac and switched to Plex, which supports hardware decoding. I also found that Emby would often lag when transcoding certain subtitle effects, whereas Plex does not

[MyTheater69 9]

Hello @Luke

we dont have any news about it except « we’re working on it ». Could you please tell us if any problem or explain what happens ?

Thanks to share news about it, we’re really waiting this features from few months (years ).

Have a good day

[MyTheater69 9]

@Luke Any update ? 

[Tazintosh 1]

Wait @Luke
I've just bought an Emby Premiere Lifetime after reading pages of marvellous reddit comments on how Emby is —still— ahead of competition, to finally discover that my Mac mini M1 server won't be able to hardware transcode?

BTW, I'm actually running Emby Server under Apple's own Container.
"Can this affect that?"

Edited December 2, 2025 by Tazintosh

[MyTheater69 9]

@Tazintoshis working fine but not optimized. Sadly because everyone know incredible possibilities of Apple Mx processors. 
I hope to use it too with my lifetime license but waiting from few years

[Tazintosh 1]

Thanks @MyTheater69

Is there a way to easily check that up?

[MyTheater69 9]

I hope they will write in release note and maybe here too. But only @Lukecan tell you. 

[Luke 42077]

HI, yes we are still looking at this. Thanks.

[MyTheater69 9]

6 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, yes we are still looking at this. Thanks.

Do you Know, how many times / when it will be available ? We’re waiting from few years

[Cat091 1]

Do the older intel  Mac mini such as the  2018 model have hard accelerations? 

 

[alex77777 16]

On 12/2/2025 at 2:41 PM, Luke said:

HI, yes we are still looking at this. Thanks.

When can we expect M4 Mac Mini Hardware Acceleration? 

[sfatula 207]

On 12/2/2025 at 2:43 AM, Tazintosh said:

Wait @Luke
I've just bought an Emby Premiere Lifetime after reading pages of marvellous reddit comments on how Emby is —still— ahead of competition, to finally discover that my Mac mini M1 server won't be able to hardware transcode?

BTW, I'm actually running Emby Server under Apple's own Container.
"Can this affect that?"

Just an FYI for those reading, since you are running under docker (container), there is no GPU passthrough even if Emby supported the GPU. If Emby did, you'd either have to run outside of container/docker, or, mess around and implement rffmpeg in the emby container which uses an external ffmpeg for transcoding. 

[Tazintosh 1]

22 minutes ago, sfatula said:

Just an FYI for those reading, since you are running under docker (container), there is no GPU passthrough even if Emby supported the GPU. If Emby did, you'd either have to run outside of container/docker, or, mess around and implement rffmpeg in the emby container which uses an external ffmpeg for transcoding. 

You know what, I will do it on day one.