Dural

So I decided to try the hardware accelerated encoding again and it now works. I haven't changed anything other than updating Plex, so it must have been a Plex issue. I've got HW for both the decode and encode now, gpu gets hit hard and the cpu isn't doing anything.

So what it appears to be doing is using the QS hardware for decoding but the CPU for encoding. If I turn the hardware encoding on it will work for anything h264 but h265 just spins, plex shows it's transcoding but nothing happens and 1 CPU thread is maxed out. Issue with the current drivers for 11th gen hardware?

I seem to be having the same issue with an 11500T, h264 starts up immediately and shows hw encoding. When I try to do the same on an h265 file it shows it starts and shows hw encoding but the client just sits there spinning. It looks like the cpu has one thread that goes to 100% while the gpu shows no load. edit-Just figured it out, uncheck Use hardware accelerated video encoding but leave Use hardware acceleration when available checked. Immediately worked after doing this and cpu load is <20% (4 threads being used for VM so not necessarily just from transcoding) while gpu video load is ~8%.

I If endurance is what you're after, Patriot claims 1600 TB for their 1TB VPR100 drive and Seagate claims 1275 TB for their 1TB FireCuda 530. Both a little higher than the 860 Pro, not sure about how they compare price wise. There are also the chia farming drives that have ridiculous multi PB endurance but you'll be paying close to enterprise prices for those.