Hardware accelerated transcoding requires membership?

[somy 25]

Hi,

I use Emby for years on my QNAP NAS and absolutely love it. Recently I noticed when I play movie in browser it shuttles a lot, and when I looked into resource monitor CPU usage is hitting 100% most of the time - guess it means DXVA not working. I went to the settings and under transcoding I saw the following:

Does it mean Emby will no longer do hardware accelerated transcoding for users without premiere membership? (recall it used to work in the past).

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes this is correct. We announced this late last year:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-443-exciting-additions-coming-soon-in-emby-server-36/

Thanks.

[somy 25]

Hi, yes this is correct. We announced this late last year:

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-443-exciting-additions-coming-soon-in-emby-server-36/

Thanks.

 

Ok, thanks!

I read "On some platforms such as Nvidia Shield and certain NAS devices, it will be included freely out of the box." - which NAS platforms does come for free and what is the reason why some platforms are free and some are not?

Edited September 7, 2019 by somy

[Luke 42077]

It's included with Nvidia Shield and WD Nas devices because CPU transcoding performance on those devices does not perform well enough to make it viable.

 

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[somy 25]

Thanks for the clarification!