amagician

Howdy, I'm struggling badly with trying to resolve my buffering and other issues with Plex, Infuse, and Jellyfin. A few months ago, I got an Intel Arc A380 for my server to convert videos to AV1 after reading so many awesome things about it. The space savings have been incredible, but the transcoding and playback are crippling. For now, I'll focus on Plex. Setup I've installed the required plugins and have alternated between adding a new device and the extra parameters to get Plex to recognize the graphics card; however, I continue to have consistent issues across devices both on and off my network. Currently, I'm passing it via extra paramteter. You can see via the GPU attachment, that Plex is trying to use the Arc but buffers and stutters non-stop with 4K content. On-Prem At home, I'm using Apple TV's that are hardwired to the network and you can see in the screenshots attached that it consistently buffers and stutters with 4K content. I've toggled off subtitles, forced lower quality, changed audio tracks, etc. literally nothing I have done works. I tried transcoding to RAM to see if that would fix things but it weirdly seemed to make things worse (although that could be a mistake on my part). And this happens for Jellyfin and Infuse as well. Oh, animated movies also look terrible now too, which never happened when just the processor was handling things. Weirdly, 1080p content works flawlessly. Off-Prem Other users external to my network are having issues as well using Roku's. This is for non-4K content. Example: someone is trying to watch a 1080p TV episode of MacGyver and the audio doesn't align at all, but I can play the file fine locally. Another user can't stream another 1080p show at all even though the audio plays before sputtering out. It eventually stops and says the server can't be reached. The whole thing seems plagued and I just don't know what to possibly try at this point, so I'm hoping someone can offer me some suggestions. I do have an Arc B series card, but I'm waiting to see what the official releases look like before considering upgrading to it. Seriously, any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I've Googled, used AI, scoured this forum, Reddit, and other places and just don't know what else to attempt at this juncture. Cheers, Andrew