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Should I enable Hardware acceleration? - Franklins - 2025-04-07
CPU: Intel 10400f
GPU: AMD 6700xt
I'm just streaming videos to my various TVs at my house, nothing fancy.
I was rooting around in the menus on the server and saw a under the playback menu a section for Hardware acceleration. I get that it uses the GPU to help with everything but is that anything I should mess around with? There are so many options and check boxes under here I'm not sure if all I have to do is select AMD AMF and hit save or if I should be doing more. I like trying new things but don't know how I can tell if its needed or not.
RE: Should I enable Hardware acceleration? - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-08
You do need to check the correct boxes. If you check the incorrect boxes, specifically checking boxes for codecs your GPU does not support, the playback will fail.
AMD has this table you can look at (the Codecs table at the bottom). For your 6700XT use the "VCN 3.0".
https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/wiki/GPU%20and%20APU%20HW%20Features%20and%20Support#codecs
Our documentation for AMD hardware acceleration is at the link below.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/amd/
RE: Should I enable Hardware acceleration? - Franklins - 2025-04-10
Okay according to your first link I have Navi22 and VCN3.0
On the chart below I see it split between Decode and Encode. I see more file types on the Decode section vs the Encode, which should I select based on that? I am a bit confused between the links on what to select here?
Enable hardware decoding for
H264
HEVC
MPEG2
VC1
VP8
VP9
AV1
HEVC 10bit
VP9 10bit
HEVC RExt 8/10bit
HEVC RExt 12bit
On the second link I see it tells me to use VA API vs AMF so I have that now selected in the drop down box.
Below that there is a whole lot going on that seems very mysterious.
RE: Should I enable Hardware acceleration? - TheDreadPirate - 2025-04-11
Uncheck both HEVC RExt boxes. Those are for HEVC videos with greater than 4:2:0 chroma subsampling (4:2:2 and 4:4:4) and AMD GPUs only support 4:2:0.
Do NOT check, "Allow encoding in AV1 format". But you can check "Allow encoding in HEVC format". You can also check "Enable Tone mapping" but NOT VPP tone mapping (Intel only). The rest of the settings you can leave alone.
RE: Should I enable Hardware acceleration? - Franklins - 2025-04-11
Thanks, I have that all set now.
The only thing I dont see on the pages listed are MPEG2, VC1, and VP8, so I left those unchecked.