Hardware transcoding?

[SilviuB 0]

Hello,

I love Emby, but I've got something that I can't get my head around: hardware transcoding. My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with an integrated graphics chip and while that chip's not amazingly powerful, it should still be able to do hardware transcoding.

My ffmpeg logs files:

Enable Playback Remuxing: True
Enable Video Playback Transcoding: True
Enable Audio Playback Transcoding: True
 
 
>>>>>> Processing Plan
Name CanDoInHW WillDoInHW Reason
Copy video stream >> False False Software Codec
VideoInput >> False False Not a hardware decoder
VideoOutput >> False False Not a hardware encoder
Copy video stream >> False False Software Codec
 
>>>>>> Video Processing Steps for [0:0]: H.264 (AVC)
Step HW-Context Format SW-Format Size Next
H264 >> - yuv420p yuv420p 1480x1080 >>

Now, if I'm not wrong, this means that all the processing is done via software decoding, right? Which is slower. Why is that?

If I go to the transcoding tab, I have quite few options for hw transcoding:

What am I missing?

 

Thank you!