AMD Transcoding Support?

[daChurchPcGuy 0]

My current emby server is a Windows 8.1 PC with an Intel i5-4590 3.3GHZ. and 16GB RAM. I'm not happy with the transcoding speeds and the p a u sing that happens on playback.

 

I'm building up a new server with Windows 8.1, Intel i7-4790 3.6GHZ., 16GB RAM. My question is in regards to hardware transcoding via a GPU. The online wiki doesn't mention anything about ATI GPU support. I'm thinking about using an AMD Radeon 400 series video adapter. That series supports HVEC in hardware. I don't want to spend $300 for a board the 400 series is around $100.

 

Does emby support the AMD VCE?

 

Thanks

Edited February 25, 2019 by daChurchPcGuy

[KarlDag 25]

AMD.

[Luke 42078]

Yea if you're talking old ATI before it became AMD, then we haven't tested these. You can try it but it might be a little too old.

 

We do support AMD cards though.

[daChurchPcGuy 0]

Okay, so I'm old, the cards are AMD and two years old. I wouldn't use one of the old ATI cards, they don't support HVEC hardware encoding.

[Luke 42078]

A two year old card should be fine. I would check out our hardware acceleration wiki:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Hardware-Acceleration-on-Windows

 

It goes over requirements for each GPU vendor including things like minimum driver version. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[daChurchPcGuy 0]

That was exactly the information I needed. I guess I'll be going with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 card since emby doesn't support headless servers for AMD. It will cost me a bit more but that's what I'm running in my current PC and H.264 and H.265 encoding is fast enough.  I encode Sunday services for Internet streaming using H.265.

 

Is there any plan to support H.265 in the future? The storage requirements are much lower for H.265 and it looks like the way to go in the future.

 

Thanks for the link.

[Luke 42078]

We already support hardware decoding of h265 if that's what your videos are encoded in. Thanks for the feedback.

[daChurchPcGuy 0]

H.265 encoding, I guess I should have spelled it out.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Transcoding in h265 is a feature request.  Emby currently does not do it.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/48529-transcode-in-h265

[daChurchPcGuy 0]

Yes, I see the thread was started in 2017.

 

My TVs are 4k, all of my playback devices support H.265.  I hate to add a step to convert to H.265, but it is what it is,

[Happy2Play 9780]

 If the devices natively support h265 you would need post a specific example (server and ffmpeg logs) of something you think shouldn't be transcoding. 

 

The logs will show the reason the content is not supported.

Edited February 27, 2019 by Happy2Play

[Luke 42078]

Correct, that feature request does not affect whether transcoding happens or not. We can still direct play your h265 video in apps that support it natively.

[crhatfield 2]

OK I know this post is ancient but I'm building a new rig.

The final rig will contain a Radeon RX 6950 XT, an AMD Ryzen 5950X and 64GB of Ram running at 3600Mhz

The transcoding wiki still says AMD AMF only supports h264 transcoding with an head end attached and not running as a service.

All of my videos are encoded H.265 to save space.

My question is, will I have a problem when family members stream from this media PC?

 

[Luke 42078]

On 7/8/2022 at 4:08 PM, crhatfield said:

OK I know this post is ancient but I'm building a new rig.

The final rig will contain a Radeon RX 6950 XT, an AMD Ryzen 5950X and 64GB of Ram running at 3600Mhz

The transcoding wiki still says AMD AMF only supports h264 transcoding with an head end attached and not running as a service.

All of my videos are encoded H.265 to save space.

My question is, will I have a problem when family members stream from this media PC?

 

HI, you may see some transcoding to h264 on devices & browsers that don't support hevc, but if the machine can handle that then you should be fine.