Everything I have read said the same thing that direct was the best. I must have misunderstood about hardware transcoding being better. That is why I got an Intel board that supported quick sync for Hardware Transcoding. Thanks for replaying. Guess I have a lot to reading ahead of me.
Not sure what I am missing , but everything i stream is direct stream and not HW. I have intel gpu top running and the terminal windows I get a return of card0 /dev/dri \renderD128. In plex extra parameters id --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 and added container path --device=/dev/dri/renderD128.
Any kelp would be great