Plex hardware encoding with Intel Arc A380

March 8, 2025January 7, 2024 by Vik

UPDATE: The instructions in the original post were for Ubuntu 22.04. If you already have Ubuntu 24.04, you can skip all this as long as you can see your device under /dev, it should show something like /dev/renderD2128. I do recommend installing the compute packages from Intel’s repository # Install the Intel graphics GPG public key wget -qO – https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/intel-graphics.key | \ sudo gpg –yes –dearmor –output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg # Configure the repositories.intel.com package repository echo …

Move from Plex to Apple Music

March 8, 2025May 29, 2022 by Vik

Over the weekend I decided to try out Apple Music. We’re invested in Apple ecosystem – have 2 Apple TVs, both wife and I have iPhones, and Apple Watches. I own MacBook Air, and a Mac Pro, and recently we bought a HomePod mini getting rid of all Alexa’s. With the HomePod mini, received a 6 month trial of Apple Music so decided it is time to try. Wife had already been trialing Apple Music, …

Playing Plex Media on Xbox One until official app arrives

March 8, 2025September 29, 2014 by Vik

This one is a big stinker to not have Plex app for Xbox One. I mean really, Plex team, what were you thinking? Word is that the development is in progress for the official XB1 app but until then what must you do if you have a huge media collection sitting on a Plex Server collecting dust? Well, there is a solution, well sort of a workaround basically. We will try to use the DLNA …